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PostPosted: Sun Apr 14, 2013 5:19 pm    Post subject: 'VINTAGE CONNECTICUT COMPANY' Reply with quote

Sitting comfortably at a company facility sometime in the late forties we see fleet # 1002 - a 1938 Yellow Coach Model 742 and one of two likenesses with the other numbered 1001 operating for the Connecticut Company of New Haven, Connecticut.

The 37 passenger Model 742, a deluxe highway coach, gained power from a 707 cubic inch gasoline engine mounted transversely at the rear and connected to the drive axle via Yellow's patented angle drive.

# 1002 and its sibling arrived from the factory with genuine leather high back seats, curtained windows, driver's search lights, fog lamps, luggage bins at the rear of the roofs and manually operated sedan doors (which were subsequently changed to powered transit folding types as seen in the image).

The buses, which were normally signed as 'Yale Special', were used mainly in charter for that Ivy League school.

Photo courtesy of '4509bus' and is up for auction on eBay as item # 370796655027.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 3:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have reestablished this thread as pertinent to any future Connecticut Company presentations because of the important role that that entity and its affiliates played in the history of bus transportation in the northeast.

Seen in Middletown, Connecticut sometime in 1947 and awaiting its next run to Hartford is fleet #384 - a 1937 23 passenger Twin Coach modeled as a 23R and one of five likenesses numbered between 384 and 388 operating for New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (New Haven) street transportation affiliate Connecticut Company.

The very popular model 23R which became the largest seller in Twin's prewar catalog gained power from a Hercules TC 320 gasoline engine mounted directly above the rear axle with a vertical shaft to the differential which resulted in a minimally restrictive low flat floor (the one negative aspect to this arrangement was the jeopardy the drive train faced in a rear end collision by being too close to the bumper).

The 23R was also built in a unique semi-monocoque style in which the body panels themselves helped to absorb stresses transmitted through the wheels and springs.

#384 follows a route which dates back to the late nineteenth century and which was purchased by New Haven from the Hartford and Middletown Street Railway in 1906.

Some Twin information culled from Moteor Bus Society records.

Photo courtesy of 'Vintage-Vault75' and is available at eBay as item # 181431750821.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York

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