Silverside or Silversides. Which is the correct terminology?

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

Which is the correct terminology? 

     Silverside
     or
     Silversides

Or are both acceptable depending on the content? If so, plz give me an example. 

[chessie4905]

Silversides. Although you can usually see only one side at a time.😏

[Utahclaimjumper]

I'm sure it has TWO sides.>>>Dan

[luvrbus]

I believe the term silversides or silverside was a term that was added by the public to the bus,I owned 2 of those but I had another name for it 

[oltrunt]

Come on luvrbus, enquiring minds want to know.  What was the other name and did it apply to both sides?  Jack

[chessie4905]

Interesting, since ACF Brill IC-41's of that period had stainless steel siding.

[Dave5Cs]

So did MCI 2,3 & 4 Couriers but much smaller panels full length.

[Iceni John]

Last weekend I was admiring my friend's Crown Silversides, a 40-foot 3-axle high-level touring bus with an 8V71 and with fluted anodized aluminum sides, one of the legendary Atomics that were built for the AEC in Idaho.   So, silversided buses weren't that rare!

John

[chessie4905]

Brills, at least, used stainless steel till they offered a diesel, then went to aluminum.

[lostagain]

MCIs up to the MC9 had stainless steel sides. And some early 102s.

So did Prevost in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

And many other manufacturers.

Passenger train cars also were silver sides. It just was the style then.

JC

[pd4501-771]

There was only one Silversides. GM pre-war & post war.

[chessie4905]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_PD-4103

[luvrbus]

I cannot imagine people in the 40's riding the old Silversides buses across the US with roads we had then and the poor driver that had to drive one with air conditioning that seldom work.
Mine rode like a log on wheels and the 4 speed on the column was a nightmare to shift it was so wore out.The 2 I had belonged to a contract carrier for Santa Fe railroad hauling people to Phoenix and Needles CA from Parker AZ mostly railroad employees.
Not far from me is a section of old 66 that is by passed now where they would need to turn the bus around and back up the grade to prevent the bus from hanging up on the grade I bet that was fun   

[DoubleEagle]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_PD-4103

I don't think the PD-4103 came with Silver Eagle emblems (on both sides).

[luvrbus]

I don't think the PD-4103 came with Silver Eagle emblems (on both sides).

The Eagles were a Trailways thing for identifying the class of service offered back then I was told,and carried over when Trailways starting manufacturing their own buses hence came the name Eagle as we know today