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37974 Shinn St, Fremont, CA 94536
37974 Shinn St, Fremont, CA 94536
Mailing Address P.O. Box 601105 Sacramento, CA 95860-1105
Mailing Address P.O. Box 601105 Sacramento, CA 95860-1105
1946 Wayne-GMC bus MBS
WAYNE (ii) (US) c. 1931 to date
- The Wayne Works, Richmond, Ind. c. 1931-1959
- Wayne Works Divn., Diuco-Wayne Corp., Richmond, Ind.
- Wayne Corp., Richmond, Ind.
Starting as a wagon builder in the 1840s, Wayne became a major supplier of composite school bus bodies and small transit bus bodies for conventional Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge and other light truck chassis, at least by 1931.
Wayne also built school bus bodies for forward-control front- and rear-engined chassis in later years, and still does so today. A particularly notable use of Wayne bodies for other than school use was by Ford in the 1930s, and again in 1949-50. From 1941 to 1946 Wayne built about 300 sectional bodies, essentially the same as those
designed and built earlier by C.J. Hug, on rear-engined Reo chassis, but sold under the Wayne name. Purchase of Wayne by Divco in 1959 resulted in a small forward-control transit bus based on a Divco chassis and known as the Bantam, but it was not successful. Since then Wayne has continued to build school buses, and some transit buses, on a variety of chassis. MBS
Source: The Complete Encyclopedia of Commercial Vehicles ©1979
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