Shawns A200

  Shawn’s Bus A200     My old A200 sitting at the beginning of my elementary run, on Robinhood Drive. Check out the raised roof and the odd location for the “bird”.   This is my former bus, A200. It is a 2001 International Bluebird conventional. It is a 78 passenger and it runs extremely…

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Ward/Amtran Buses

Ward/Amtran Corporation   Ward Corporation D. H. “Dave” Ward founded Ward Body Works in Conway, Arkansas in 1933 when he “lowered the roof of a wooden bus for Mr. Carl Brady of the Southside Schools”. Southside Schools were located about 15 miles north of Conway. Later in the 1930s, the company produced its first all-metal…

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Superior Coach

  Superior Coach   Garford Motor Truck Company In 1909, the Garford Motor Truck Company was established in Elyria, Ohio, a small town 30 miles outside Cleveland. By June 1912, the company was awarded a lucrative contract with the United States Post Office. The first order called for 11 trucks; the following for 20 trucks,…

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School Bus Links

  School Bus Links   This is my school bus links page. This page will be added to quite a bit, so feel free to look around. If you know of a link I missed, please let me know by clicking my name below…     State School Bus Links Alabama Department of Education Alaska…

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Ken’s 2004 IC RE-300

  Ken Betts 2004 IC RE-300     This is Ken’s bus. He drives this bus through the mountains just up from Denver.   This bus is numbered 453. It belongs to Jefferson County Public Schools…Jeffco, as It’s Otherwise known.   This is a item that I like. The rubber protector around the parking brake…

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