SIA Flashback – Custom Bus Bodies: How They Got to School Back Then

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An oft-overlooked branch of coachbuilding includes all those firms that built utility bodies on truck chassis, necessary because the truck and auto manufacturers rarely offered such specialty bodies as school buses. For SIA #148, July 1995, Richard Kelley rounded up a variety of school bus body styles on various chassis. So who bodied the bus that took you to school as a young’un?

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