In 30-ies became popular small luxury coaches on a slender chassis cars. One of them - 12-seat Sedan-Bus Company Fitzjohn, built on Chevrolet chassis for one of the transport companies. Despite its small size, these buses, cars cruised through Alaska, the United States and Mexico. And even with such a small passenger-capacity travel across North America have been very profitable and convenient. Note that so beloved chrome and polished aluminum finish most buses are not.

And a few words about pre-war coaches. Rather, about their design. It goes on the original painting, and sculpture of the object. Here, for example, Fitzjohn 1939 is easy to see that the nature of some surfaces affected passenger car. Yes, it is the passenger. Pay attention to the front wings. Impression that their purely mechanically transferred to the body of the bus with passenger cars, and \u0026quot;appeared\u0026quot;, this sculpture. In this technique at the time enjoyed quite a few American bus company, but this period has passed fairly quickly. Rather, it was just a passing fad.

A few words about the city bus. In the United States in the 20\u0026#39;s and 30-ies on the streets of major cities often could be found double-decker buses. Some companies produce them before the Second World War. But, by and large, you have a huge fleet of private cars and rather weak development of urban public transport need for such machines was no longer itself. Incidentally, many American cities today do not have a developed public transport infrastructure. But, nevertheless, interesting design urban bus from time to time appeared.

For example, articulated Twin-Coach in 1938, I would say - \u0026quot;conventionally articulated\u0026quot; as semitrailer this bus does not move right or left turn, as we used to, but merely repeated the terrain, swaying in the vertical plane. The life of this \u0026quot;misunderstanding\u0026quot; due to ill-conceived concept was short-lived.

Postwar GM, nicknamed \u0026quot;New Look, which appeared in 1960, showed a clean town car, although often used on transit flights. The main differences between the bus were: multisection windshield, dual headlights, a moderate amount of polished aluminum and stainless steel and a pair of sloping side windows between the doors. The engine was located behind, but the experiments were conducted with gas turbine and even the steam engine. Produced bus for several decades with minor modifications.
Mack, 1956


In 1956, already known to us the company Mack has produced a pilot bus ADS-1 to the sketches of designer Alex de Shakhnovsky. The bus was called the \u0026quot;transport of the future\u0026quot;. Now look at this creation without a smile is difficult, but then he made a considerable impression on the audience. Smooth curves organized unusual surfaces, bold graphics of glasses were given eccentricity thinking designer. In short, ADS-1 became an event not only in the U.S., but in the world avtobusostroenii. Unfortunately, the only copy of constructed died in a fire.

Two years later, that same three-axle bus trips Mack has built for long range flights. By the way, and there has not been without financial injections Greyhound. Bus, above all, impressed the audience with its size - it can be seen from the photographs. In the back of the glass was part of the so-called recreational area, where the tables could have coffee or play games of chance ... 

On the surface - it was up to trifles American classicism. Hefty chuck with a relatively narrow windshield, small side windows and a huge amount of chrome around the perimeter of the bus. Bus length of 12 m had a 255-horsepower turbo diesel, located in the back. By the way, about serving the rear: the bus had even small wings. This, apparently, a tribute to last year aerostilya in a passenger automobile.
MCI Crusader, 1974


And now on a bus MCI (Motor Coach Industries) Crusader, published and in Canada and the United States since 1972 MCI - a kind of firm that is building luxury buses practically since its birth. The creation of this three-axle bus was subsidized again Greyhound, which was going to use a series of such machines on their routes. The bus was a purely American vision of this transport mode, only the roof of the passenger compartment was raised because of the increased volume of lower baggage compartments. Separately, it should be said about the color of external elements - especially the window pillars, had all, without exception, black color, which, coupled with tinted windows create the illusion of continuous dark stripes. Together with an abundance of chrome and brand colors Greyhound this painting gave the car inexpressible charm. On board, depending on the type of seats and interior layout can be arranged from 43 to 53 seats. Later on the bus tried to put the gas turbine, but in the series, this option did not go.
Prevost, 1992


Recall another, not quite the usual form of transport, based on the bus. As an example, we take one of the latest models of the Canadian company Prevost with a deep and rich past. Along with passenger bus company produces quite active in recent years so-called Bus-Shell (loosely translated - \u0026quot;bus-shells\u0026quot;). These crews usually do not have any internal hardware and are designed for wealthy clients who pay numerous workshops to get an exclusive version of the home on wheels. Such workshops have recently become more and more, but here are two identical buses can not be found, although the cost of another one approaching one million dollars ...

And, of course, impossible to ignore one of the symbols of America - the school bus. The first of these appeared in 1927 in one of the dealers\u0026#39; offices Ford. Sharp-witted boss put on Ford chassis made of wood, iron-shod kuzovok with small seats specially to transport children to school and back. Exactly born the famous School Bus. Since then, manufacturers of these buses were so many that are not counted. And the machines themselves were even more.
Envire Bus, 2000


We will tell only about one of them - Envire Bus 2000, manufactured by Blue Bird. Judging by the name, the bus very \u0026quot;friendly\u0026quot; with the environment, since the engine is equipped with John Deere, running on natural gas. Depending on the length of the bus number of seats for students, or students can reach hundreds. Virtually every detail of the interior and exterior are designed to provide safety of passengers. The same purpose is subject to a navigation system with a code assigned to each bus. Manager, for example, in the course of any bus stop and its causes - or is it a failure or capture of terrorists. You see how seriously the Americans to their children? A holographic label STOP worth something!