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[Mr. Linsky]

Within the department of little known facts, I found one that even I didn't know about!

A state Transit Commission report dated June of 1941 indicated that the stockholders of Green Bus Lines (NY) had attempted on no less than two occasions to purchase Queens Nassau Transit Lines.

The first attempt was directly, and the second through a 'paper' company named Transportation Sales and Service Corporation.

In both instances the commission found the offers to be illegal although they would not say why.

While the illegality was not criminal in nature, it probably violated Mayor La Guardia's original 'four zone' concept in Queens which would not have allowed any one operator to dominate more than their own zone.

The failed Queens Nassau acquisition was one of only three that I know of for Green Line and included North Shore Bus Company and Bee Line (L.I.) - in the case of Bee Line a squabble among family members that owned it nixed the deal.

Information partially derived from the Queens Surface issue of Motor Coach Age.

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