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Fageol – Safety Coach Miniature Diagram

Burrowes Collection – Fageol – Safety Coach Miniature Diagram

• Archive Type: Manufacturers & Builders Files
• Builder: Fageol

Robert Burrowes Operators File for Napa Transit

Napa Route Application 9/4/1964

Folder contents partially digitized

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Napa Transit

Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Flxible Clipper

Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Flxible Clipper is featured on this July 1977 calendar from the Bus History Association

• Archive Type: Memorabilia Collections

Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Lines Lake Tahoe Service

This is a fun little fold-open brochure that’s printed black on the outside and green on the inside. There are cut-outs that allow the inside to show through.

• Archive Type: Memorabilia Collections

Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Lines #84 on south Main Street in Yerington in 1959

• Archive Type: Books & Periodicals

Monterey-Salinas Transit – 1984/winter Bus World #80 Restoration Article

This article from the 1984/winter Bus World describes the restoration of Monterey-Salinas Transit which is now part of the Pacific Bus Museum’s fleet.

#80 – Monterey-Salinas Transit

• Archive Type: Memorabilia Collections

Crown Supercoach Brochure

This is a really wonderfully beautiful glossy brochure that covers a lot of ground. Crown 36-ft and 40-ft tandem. Crown experience with school buses, tour buses, AV vehicles, Fire trucks, and more. Coach body construction, safety and durability. Details about rivets vs. screws, use of aluminum and steel, body shape, temperature control, and suspension system. Advantages of transit vs. conventional body style, passenger capacity, and high-floor safety. Benefits of amid-ship diesel engines. Crown-exclusive safety exit designs. Driver visibility and “aircraft type” instrument console. Comparison of small details. Extensive storage space options. Standard Crown features. Service and support ensuring no bus becomes a Service Orphan.

• Archive Type: Manufacturers & Builders Files
• Builder: Crown Coach Corp

Original Supercoach II Drawing 1950s

Stylized concept drawing of the Supercoach II (LM C15) wall poster.

“The drawing was from about 1959, and the artist was Mr. Fleischman from Crown. There’s a companion intercity bus drawing as well.” – Tom Shafer

Like a lot of things in the 1950s, you’d almost expect this to be rocket-powered!

• Archive Type: Object or other Artifact

Various North Sacramento Stage Lines

These were in Louk Markham’s Crown Photos collection, but it is not a Crown nor is ther any evidence that it’s either a Dick Whittinton or Warren Bowen photos. (It should be re-filed into Bill Burrowes Operators Files.)

The history of North Sacramento Stage Lines was documented in the April-June 2016 issue of Motor Coach Age.

“The surviving principal in the 1930’s was Bill Pimentel, a chronic believer in small lightweight buses.
The photos are of No Sac’s second number 11, a demonstrator built in 1/37
Another source says 1938, but I believe that’s when Pimentel bought it
It has a 26p FitzJohn model 350 body on a Reo 165-inch wheelbase 3P7 chassis
That was a reversed 2L4 forward control chassis with a 309 Gold Crown engine straight-in at the rear.
Twas a unique animal.
As for the Ford RET, they had at least six new 29B’s in 942-43 including this one.”
– Eli Bail

• Archive Type: Memorabilia Collections

1940 Richard Burris Key System / Terminal RR Scrapbook

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Key System / Oakland Terminal Railroad

Tanner – GMC Coach Builder Plates

Builder plates with notes about ownership history

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Tanner Motor Tours

LTR Coach #112 Truckee

LTR – 1969/07/23 Laminated Photo Coach #112 Truckee – Robert Burrowes Collection

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: LTR – Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Lines

LTR – Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno Stage Lines Pop-Up Business Card

This is a very unique business card that pops open into a tiny slide viewer.

• Archive Type: Object or other Artifact

Bus World Magazine Scenic Hyway Tours

Bus World Magazine Scenic Hyway Tours

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

1937 – Crown Coach Builder Guild

Crown Coach Builder Guild

This document is the official declaration of intent to unionize

• Archive Type: Records, Documents, Ephemera

1938 – Crown Coach Builder Guild Documents

Various documents from ~1938 regarding the newly formed Crown union. The Coach Builders Guild.
Includes receipts, check stubs, plans for holiday dinner, and the creation of a “mutual benefit” health plan.

• Archive Type: Memorabilia Collections

1937-California DMV Vehicle Code Booklet

1937-California DMV Vehicle Code Booklet

An intact complete DMV booklet from 1937

• Archive Type: Memorabilia Collections

1938 – Crown Employee Health Benefit Packet

1938 – Crown Employee Health Benefit Packet

• Archive Type: Memorabilia Collections

1941 – Crown Employee Health Benefit Packet

1941 – Crown Employee Health Benefit Packet

• Archive Type: Records, Documents, Ephemera

Pacific Transit Bus Sales Company

Correspondence and Receipt envelopes

• Archive Type: Records, Documents, Ephemera

Leather Briefcase

• Archive Type: Object or other Artifact

Pickwick NiteCoach Brochure

Fold out color brochure highlighting the route and benefits of the NiteCoach.

• Archive Type: Manufacturers & Builders Files
• Builder: Pickwick

Fageol Safety Coach Brochure

Fageol Safety Coach Brochure PDF

• Archive Type: Manufacturers & Builders Files
• Builder: Fageol

1990 Peninsula Charter Lines #216 Charter Package

This 1990 charter was organized by PBM President Jim Husing and Mike Demeter.
This is a copy of the charter package given to participants.

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Peninsula Charter Lines

Wayne Works Brochure

Wayne Works Brochure… America’s Safest way to go to school

This was among the Crown Coach archives. Crown’s Vice-President of Engineering, Chas. Koors, requested various materials from Wayne

• Archive Type: Manufacturers & Builders Files
• Builder: Wayne

Key System Bridge Unit – Newspaper Article

“TRAVELING TRAIN-No, the Key System transbay trains aren’t back in service. This one going along Third St. at Broadway was coupled to a Western Pacific freight so it could get to Reno to be placed in a railroad museum.”
Oakland Tribute, Wednesday August 3rd, 1960

• Archive Type: Railroad Files

Scenic Hyway Tours – Wall Calendar 1974 Richard Photo with #6900

Wall Calendar

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – Alexander Valley #6902 Mount Diablo

Wall Calendar

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – #8637 December 1988 Calendar

December 1989 Wall Calendar

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – #8638 Tomales Bay

1990 – SHT Wall Calendar

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – #8634 Montery Bay

Wall Calendar

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – Bus Operator Magazine

Scenic Hyway Tours – 1991/03 Bus Operator Magazine

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – 1992 Rabbit Ear Pass, Colorado

Wall Calendar

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – 1993 #8637 Lake Taho with Snow

Wall Calendar

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – #8633 Emerald Bay

Wall Calendar

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – 1965 MC-5A #6420

Wall Calendar

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – 1989 Wall Calendar #6904 Mount Tamalpais #7421 Point Arena

1989 Wall Calendar

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – Evolution of the Paint scheme

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – 15 Anniversary #7428 Point Cabrillo SF Skyline

1989 cleandar

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours

Scenic Hyway Tours – SHT 15 Anniversary #7427 SF City Hall

1989 Calendar

• Archive Type: Transit Operators Files
• Operator: Scenic Hyway Tours