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N4 Jamaica · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Long Island

Might someone help me with identifying this bus?
http://gallery.bustalk.info/displayimage.php?pos=-16311
I came across the large photo on the wall of the NYC Transit Museum the other day. It is bus 13, but I am not even certain whether it is New York Omnibus Company as only the word Company can be seen. Even the route has me puzzled. Clicking
Many thanks.
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Tripstop80 · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 9

Fifth Avenue Coach Company. Yellow Coach Model 718 of 1934-1935. The route is the present day M2; it still runs uptown via 27th Street between Park and Madison. It was probably on a pull in trip if its last stop was 106th Street.

Mr. Linsky · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:45 am Post subject:

N4J,

Here's a little better light on your terrific find (top) and a couple of more from the 718 era as well as the 740 replacement (lowest) - and all of which being operated by the Omnibus Corporation.

Of the four divisions of Omnibus, only Fifth Avenue Coach and Madison Avenue Coach ended with the word Company.

The flags of both Eighth Avenue and NYCO carried the word Corporation.

BTW; Tripstop is right on the money with his appraisal - good work.

Some photos courtesy of NYPL Digital Gallery.

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

HwyHaulier · Joined: 16 Dec 2007 Posts: 932 Location: Harford County, MD

Mr "L" - All -

A startling part of all of it was simply that of how long many of the coaches served. There are photos around of some of the resourceful
and inventive work done by Shop forces over the years...

A curious variant shows pairing a post 1941 Yellow Coach front (cap?), presumably to restore damage suffered in traffic mishaps. I don't
think the new kids really want to know how much service the old coaches put in...

.....................Vern.................

Mr. Linsky · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:48 pm Post subject:

Vern,

The Omnibus shops did do a little tinkering with the 740's as can be seen below (top).

In a GM supported program, the front clips were updated to 'Old Look' less the 'dummy' Thermo-Matic intakes over the windshields that Triboro Coach added to their same remakes (bottom).

As far as years of service, the 718's of the cartel disappeared rather quickly after the 740's began to proliferate, and they lasted at least to the mid fifties.

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