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In 1909 GM acquired Rapid Motor Vehicle Company in Pontiac Michigan. In 1908 General Motors acquired Reliance Motor Car Company. In 1911, these were combined into “General Motors Truck Company” and operated from Pontiac MI.
The Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company was a builder of passenger buses starting in 1923. Yellow Coach started as a subsidiary of John D. Hertz’s Yellow Cab Company. They filled the need for low-chassis conventional buses.
General Motors purchased a controlling stake in Yellow in 1925 and changed the name to the Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Company.
In the 1930s Yellow Coach developed Streamlined flat-front models which introduced a high floor, underfloor luggage storage, air conditioning, and a diesel engines.
GM purchased Yellow outright in 1943 and merged it with their GM Truck Division. This new GM Truck & Coach Division continued to produce Yellow T-series & P-series coaches wearing the GM badge.
We used this UtahRails.net as well as the General Motors August 1968 Engineering Standards as references for model numbers such as PD-4501’s:
Some coaches, such as the PG-3701, were also specially made for Greyhound. In those cases, they had an extra G (e.g. PGG-3701) denoting them as Greyhound-specific configuration.
What do these terms mean?
Parlor Coaches are long-haul highway buses – are often equipped with comfortable seats and amenities such as air-conditioning or bathrooms.
Transit Buses are city buses – include rear exit doors, and seating optimized for standees.
Suburban Coaches are inner-city transport buses – often used as commuter coaches.
The Pacific Bus Museum fleet includes a selection of historic General Motors coaches from 1945 to 1976.
This 1955 PD-4501 Scenicruiser was delivered new to Southwestern Greyhound Lines in January 1956.
This Scenicruiser was customized for promotional use by the makers of Red Bull energy drink.
It was donated to the Pacific Bus Museum by Steven Hofmann in June 2023
4-Speed Manual, Allison, Automatic, Detroit Diesel, General Motors, General Motors, GM Truck & Coach Division, Greyhound, Parlor, Red Bull, Southwestern Greyhound Lines
Originally this GM, PD-4151 “Silverside” was delivered new to Pacific Greyhound Lines in San Francisco in April 1948.
In early 1972 Greyhound sold its last group of Silversides to a bus company in Peru but the very last Silverside bound for Peru was never shipped. This bus became part of Greyhound’s Historic Bus Fleet.
The Pacific Bus Museum acquired #1947 in January 2023 from Greyhound.
4-Speed Manual, General Motors, General Motors, GM Truck & Coach Division, Greyhound, Greyhound Historic Bus Fleet, Intercity Coach, Pacific Greyhound Lines, Parlor, Unknown Peru, Western Greyhound Lines
This General Motors PD-4106 was delivered new to Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno (LTR) Stage Line in 1964.
The bus was donated to the PBM in 1996 along with the five other buses of Richard Twining’s historical bus collection.
4-Speed Manual, General Motors, General Motors, GM Truck & Coach Division, Intercity Coach, Las Vegas-Tonopah-Reno (LTR) Stage Line, Office of Defense Transportation, Oregon Coachways
This GM TDH-5301 “New Look” was purchased new by Western Greyhound Lines in 1961.
It was later acquired by the Santa Clara County Transit District (San Jose, CA).
#4708 was was acquired by the Pacific Bus Museum in 1994.
2-Speed V-Drive Hydraulic, General Motors, General Motors, GM Truck & Coach Division, Greyhound, Intercity Coach, San Mateo County Transit District (SamTrans), Santa Clara County Transit District (SCCTD), Western Greyhound Lines
This “Old Look” TDH-4801 in an order of 21 buses for Key System Transit Lines that were delivered, new, in 1958.
#2103 was the first bus in revenue service for AC Transit when the agency took over operations from Key System Transit Lines
#2103 was donated to the PBM in April 2013.
2-Speed Hydromatic, Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit), General Motors, General Motors, GM Truck & Coach Division, Key System, Key System Transit Lines (KSTL), Santa Clara County Transit District (SCCTD), Transit, Western Railway Museum
Three General Motors TDM-4512’s (#244-246) were delivered to Peerless Stages, Inc. of Oakland, CA in April 1955.
In 1996 Richard donated #246 along with the five other buses in his historic bus collection to the Pacific Bus Museum.
4-Speed Manual, General Motors, General Motors, GM Truck & Coach Division, Intercity Coach, Peerless Stages, West Coast Motor Coach Museum
Stephen Schwarzwald acquired the bus from Antelope Valley Bus Lines in 1975. Stephen was the Vice President of the WCMCM and later was the Secretary of the PBM. He donated the bus to the PBM in 1992.
2-Speed Hydromatic, Antelope Valley Lines, General Motors, General Motors, GM Truck & Coach Division, Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (LAMTA), Pacific Electric, Southern California RTD (SCRTD), Transit, West Coast Motor Coach Museum
This GM PD 3302 coach was delivered to Missouri Pacific Stages in 1945 as #821.
The bus was donated to the PBM in 1996 along with the five other buses of Richard Twining’s historical bus collection.
4-Speed Manual, GM Truck & Coach Division, Missouri Pacific Stages, Office of Defense Transportation, Pacific Greyhound Lines, Parlor, Western Greyhound Lines
In 2017 PBM Member, Ron Medaglia, wrote this article on the history of the Pacific Bus Museum, entitled “The Pacific Bus Museum From Hobby to Formal Museum”, for the National Bus Trader magazine.
American Stage Tours, General Motors, GM Truck & Coach Division, Niles Canyon Railway, Niles Coach Lines, Royal Coach Tours, Scenic Hyway Tours, Twin Coach, UC Davis Transit System, Union Pacific Railroad, Unitrans UC Davis, West Coast Motor Coach Museum
