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Mack Trucks, Inc. is an American truck manufacturing company and a former manufacturer of buses and trolley buses. Founded in 1900 as the Mack Brothers Company, it manufactured its first truck in 1905 and adopted its present name in 1922.
Besides being the standard city bus in the Soviet Union in the 1950s, a large quantity were exported to other Eastern Bloc countries, and are known to have been used in Warsaw, Berlin, Ulan Bator and Beijing. A twelve-seat long-distance version was also built.
The B-series was the first Mack truck produced with a diesel engine, introducing the Mack-produced Thermodyne inline-6 in 1953. [1] During 1966, Mack replaced the B-series with the Mack R-series, which lasted into the 21st century.
Despite large amounts of quality problems, the Sceniccruiser (like the GM New Look bus which shared many design similarities and parts did for transit buses) became the definitive Greyhound bus for decades and an icon of 1950s design, even well past the buses' retirement.
A restored GM "New Look" bus of the former New York Bus Service (now the MTA) The GM New Look bus is a municipal transit bus that was introduced in 1959 by the Truck and Coach Division of General Motors to replace the company's previous coach, retroactively known as the GM "old-look" transit bus.
An older Mack bus behind the Jackson Street Roundhouse Up until 2019, Several buses from the 1940s and 1950s were also operated by the museum. Most equipment in the bus collection were built by the GMC division of General Motors , and represented the vehicles that replaced the streetcars in the Twin Cities in the 1950s.
Early and pre-World War II truck and buses AC series 5,5 ton truck "Old # 1"- Bus 1900; Manhattan Series- 1903; Junior Series- 1909; AB Series- 1914-1920; AC Series- 1916-1939; AK Series- 1928-193?, 3½–5 ton high speed carrier; AP Series- 1926-1938; Junior (II) Series- 1936-1938; E Series- 1936-1951; F Series- 1936-1942; L Series- 1940-1948 ...
The GM Futurliners were a group of custom vehicles, styled in the 1940s by Harley Earl for General Motors, and integral to the company's Parade of Progress—a North American traveling exhibition promoting future cars and technologies. [2] [3] Having earlier used eight custom Streamliners from 1936 to 1940, [4] GM sponsored the Parade of ...
In other countries, surplus Mack NR trucks were also fitted with various bus, truck or van bodies. 1945 to 1965. In the 1950s Mack built US standard tactical trucks, as well as supplying commercial models for non combat roles. M54 series
Also in 1950 GM Truck & Coach introduced new 40-foot-long (12 m) diesel-powered transit coach and during 1951 the Mt. Elliott, Oakland, Trumbull, Clairmount, and Mack lines were converted from streetcars to buses.