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One of California's last in-service Crown Supercoach school buses.
The company allowed me to go in their premises and snap some pictures, and I had a short conversation with them.
Retired Community Schools
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A gift from my artist friend --- Guy Robaye. He captured the old Brockway PERFECTLY!!!
In 1945, Mercury Aircraft purchased Penn Yan Bus Bodies Inc. of Penn Yan, New York.
Penn Yan Bus Bodies was located on Liberty St. in Penn Yan and was formed when Whitfield and Sons Coach Builders of Penn Yan went bankrupt in 1933.
Whitfield and Sons Coach Builders of Penn Yan, New York had been building coach and bus bodies since 1885.
Willet Wetmore bought the bankrupt Whitfield and Sons Coach Builders and leased property from Penn Yan Boat Co. on Liberty St. in Penn Yan, New York to form Penn Yan Bus Bodies Inc. of which he was president.
In 1941, Penn Yan Bus Bodies Inc. was seriously damaged in a fire which may have lead Willet Wetmore to seek a buyer of remaining equipment.
This is where Mercury Aircraft steps in according to the 1945 article from the Geneva Times, and purchases remaining equipment belonging to Penn Yan Bus Bodies Inc. of Penn Yan, New York. They opened a new facility in Hammondsport -- Mercury Buses, Penn Yan Bus Division and built school buses using techniques borrowed from aircraft manufacturing. Their buses used aluminium framing and bodies incorporating Mack, Brockway, Dodge, and Ford chassis. From 1945-48, 250 to 300 school buses were produced.
Karl Kreutziger, sales manager of Mercury Buses, bought the Penn Yan Bus Division in 1948 to fulfill Mercury's contract for 100 unfinished Mercury Buses. From that purchase, what was to become Coach and Equipment Mfg. was formed.
Lots of school busses have shown up on the streets as school has started. Watch out for the little ones.