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Title: Old buses in LV
Post by: lvmci on January 13, 2017, 08:14:32 PM
Heres a picture from old Las Vegas, maybe 1940s30s, can anyone identify the brand of buses? I don't recognize those tail lights, lvmci...
Title: Re: Old buses in LV
Post by: HB of CJ on January 14, 2017, 12:41:18 AM
Strange indeed.  My first hunch was that they were very old, (modern at the time) General Motors.  Similar to the "Blue Sleds" run by the City of Bakersfield CA up until about 1972.
Title: Re: Old buses in LV
Post by: bigred on January 14, 2017, 06:38:28 AM
Lo oks like these are conventional buses with the motor out front .Don't know if this applies to LV or not,but around here the ones I barely remember were Whites.When we first moved to Ashevlle probably in 1950 ,there was an abandoned one on a vacant lot that I passed walking to school .One of my daily stops was to play on that thing .They were replaced buy the GM "SLOOP BACK "pushers
Title: Re: Old buses in LV
Post by: lvmci on January 14, 2017, 11:06:42 AM
Hi Rhett, I found another picture which I wasn't able to put on here that shows the buses from this era with a flat nose not a dog nose, I still wasn't able to recognize them, later when I was a kid they were the single headlight GM's that are so recognizable from the fifties and sixties, lvmci...
Title: Re: Old buses in LV
Post by: Runcutter on January 14, 2017, 02:19:14 PM
It's a little hard to tell from the angle, but it looks like the rear axle is quite near the back of the bus.  That's a characteristic of Twin Coaches.  Could be ACF's, but my vote is Twin Coach.

Arthur
Title: Re: Old buses in LV
Post by: luvrbus on January 14, 2017, 03:21:06 PM
I believe they were Fords,a old guy in Mesquite NV had 3 for sale back in 1985 I looked at
Title: Re: Old buses in LV
Post by: bigred on January 14, 2017, 04:51:09 PM
I agree with Clif . type "detroittransithistoryinfo" into your search engine .There are many pics of these old rear engine Ford's on there >