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Fifth Avenue Coach Plastic Storage Case
Model # / Description...
Black plastic clamshell case with 1919 black and white photograph of bus driver changing destination sign
Manufacturer / Country...
Manufacturer unknown
Dimensions and Scale...
7 1/2" H x 4 1/4" W x 1 1/4" D
Description, Collector Value ($US) and Notes...
This is a black plastic clamshell case a little smaller than a VHS videotape case. On the front it features a laminated black and white photograph from 1919. The inside of the box has a note describing the image...
Fifth Avenue Coach company driver changing the destination sign on the "57th Street To 168th Street" route Manhattan, 1919. New York Transit Museum Archives, Brooklyn, New York.
Note that the bus is a double decker with right hand drive and a crank start motor.
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Aug 30, 08 | 10:03 pmThank you so much Malcolm for the description and history of the above bus. Look forward to more of your comments and knowledge throughout the site.
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The bus is an A type, 47 seat double decker, one of 240 built between 1917 and 1921 by the New York Transportation Company, the manufacturing arm and parent company of the Fifth Avenue Coach Company. These were the first in-house-built buses operated by FACC. Before that the major supplier was French company De Dion Bouton with bodies built by Brill of Philadelphia to a London General Omnibus Company design.