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[Mr. Linsky]

This piece is dedicated to our good buddy Dieseljim.


Modern bus company service cars including heavy duty towing equipment, 'pit stop' repair shops and even snow removal rigs are 'purpose built' usually by truck manufacturers.

However, in days of yore, this was not the case and the fabrication of such equipment was left to the imaginations of clever transit company mechanics.

Being that buses of the past were built tougher and lasted so much longer than those produced today, it was easy to take even the highest mileage retiree and convert it for road service duty knowing that it could last almost indefinitely.

Pictured below are just some of those interesting transformations seen plying New York's thoroughfares in times past.

Top three photos courtesy of the Mel Bernero collection.
Credit for bottom image is seen in frame.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, NY



Ex Staten Island Coach Company ACF operating for NYC Queens Bus Division


Ex Brooklyn Bus Corporation Mack operating for NYC Brooklyn Bus Division


Ex Brooklyn Bus Corporation Mack operating for NYC Manhattan Bus Division


Green Bus Lines 1934 Brockway conversion

[Cyberider]

I'm sure Jim would have approved of these vehicles as being far better than anything available to the current fleets! Hey, I like them too!