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Title: Nice old bus picture
Post by: Ednj on June 26, 2006, 12:43:36 PM
Look at this
8)
Title: Re: Nice old bus picture
Post by: Dallas on June 26, 2006, 12:47:00 PM
Ed that is one Cool Unit!

How about this one:
Title: Re: Nice old bus picture
Post by: coachcrazy on June 26, 2006, 12:53:55 PM
wow, thats a really cool eagle  ;D
Title: Re: Nice old bus picture
Post by: kyle4501 on June 26, 2006, 01:25:52 PM
OK Ed,
What is it? Looks like a dual level like a Scenicruiser copy.
Title: Re: Nice old bus picture
Post by: Buffalo SpaceShip on June 26, 2006, 01:46:46 PM
Quote from: kyle4501 on June 26, 2006, 01:25:52 PM
OK Ed,
What is it? Looks like a dual level like a Scenicruiser copy.
It's a Flxible. Like this one...
http://busexplorer.com/PHP/MidPage.php?id=1020
Title: Re: Nice old bus picture
Post by: Len Silva on June 26, 2006, 02:24:58 PM
I beleive it's an old Brill.  Here is another picturre I found.

You can see it here:
http://www.angelfire.com/al3/biged1942/1pic/CBS-Cont.jpg
Title: Re: Nice old bus picture
Post by: Buffalo SpaceShip on June 26, 2006, 02:59:10 PM
I think you're right, Len. The windows on the Flx are angled like the 4501s.

I never knew Brill made a deck-and-a-half-er.

bb
Title: Re: Nice old bus picture
Post by: kyle4501 on June 26, 2006, 03:07:46 PM
Have any survived? Looks like it would be very unique, to say the least.

I wonder what the floor plan was like.
Title: Re: Nice old bus picture
Post by: phil4501 on June 26, 2006, 03:18:46 PM
The white walls sure look sharp on that thing, where do get some of those?
Title: Re: Nice old bus picture
Post by: Len Silva on June 26, 2006, 03:19:54 PM
I'd like to see some of those 10.00-20 white wall tires.

Len
Title: Re: Nice old bus picture
Post by: roadrunnertex on June 26, 2006, 03:54:43 PM
Ok let a old bus fan step in.
It's a ACF Brill a one of a kind coach prototype built by ACF for Continental Trailways.
American Car & Foundry was a major builder of intercity coaches in the 30's and 1940 and early 50's.
ACF went out of the bus busness as they could not compete with GM Coach Division.
Greyhound and Trailways were a big user of ACF IC-41 equipment back after the 2nd World War.
(IC-41 Intercity 41 passenger)
ACF built a lot of transit coaches also.
They were powered by a underfloor Hall-Scott gasoline engine.
Some of the Later ACF equipment used diesel power but not vary many were built.
jlv