Riding the Dog with Greyhound - Part 2

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

This video discusses when Greyhound bought out Trailways.

They show a Nigeria Greyhound 4104 bus.

Greyhound Van Lines were very popular then.

The boss of Greyhound owned a Scenicruiser.

The arrival of the MC-8. They were trendy buses and made Greyhound even more popular.

The MC-5 and MC-7 were still popular, but all GM buses would be removed from Greyhound service.

In 1925, Greyhound advertised in big newspapers.  See their ad.

Greyhound was also in the meat packing business with Armor. That was more successful than the bus service.

Greyhound moved its corporate headquarters from Chicago to Phoenix, which created quite a controversy.

Greyhound Rent-A-Car, $45 per week with free mileage, wasn't doing well.

Bus Plus was introduced to offset Trailway's 5-Star service. See those buses.

In 1972, the Pepsi paint scheme was introduced and lasted over 23 years.

The MC-7 was called the Big Bear.

Greyhound had a terminal in Mexico City. They ran Chihuaheunse buses there, too.

Dina was also building buses for Greyhound.

Greyhound also had snow cats to shuttle people around in Canada.

Greyhound ran Setra buses for Airport Shuttle services.

Greyhound ran 15 MC-6 buses all over Canada. The first ones had powerful V12 engines. But the US would not let the 102" wide buses on its roads, so MCI stopped building them.

Greyhound 1 was an Executive Coach in 1974.

In 1974 the Greyhound Dog was introduced as the new logo.

The turbine-powered buses were first sent to Switzerland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNaj7Ah_Yj4