Yellow Coach

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The Yellow Coach Manufacturing Co. was founded in 1923 as a subsidiary of the Yellow Cab Company by John D. Hertz and was an early player in bus manufacturing in the United States.

General Motors Corporation became a majority owner of the company in 1925 and changed the name to the Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Company. In 1943 General Motors Corporation purchased the company and folded it into the GM Truck Division to form the GM Truck & Coach Division. Although GM continued with the Yellow Coach product line, the Yellow Coach badge gave way to the GM nameplate in 1944.

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Models

700-series buses (1932-1939)

  • 700
  • 701 - 40 passenger, transit trolleybus (1932-?)
  • 702
  • 704 - 40 passenger, rear-engine transit bus
  • 706 - "Queen Mary" - 72 passenger, 'straight-in' rear-engine double-decker prototype transit bus (one only built)
  • 709 - 18 passenger, front-engine transit bus
  • 711 - 28 passenger, rear-engine transit bus
  • 712
  • 715 - 21 passenger, front-engine transit bus
  • 716 - 23 passenger, front-engine transit bus
  • 717
  • 718 - rear-engine transit bus
  • 719 - rear-engine parlor coach
  • 720 "Queen Mary" - 72 passenger, rear-engine double-decker transit bus
  • 722 - 20 passenger, rear-engine parlor coach
  • 724 - 28 passenger, rear-engine parlor coach
  • 725 - 32 passenger, rear-engine transit bus (only 4 built)
  • 727 - 36 passenger, rear-engine transit bus (only 10 built)
  • 728 - 32 passenger, rear-engine transit bus (1935-39)
  • 729 - rear-engine transit "All Service Vehicle" (combination bus/trollybus)
  • 731 - rear-engine transit bus
  • 732 - rear-engine parlor coach
  • 733 - front-engine transit bus
  • 734 - rear-engine suburban bus
  • 735 - rear-engine double-decker transit bus
  • 736 - rear-engine diesel-powered bus
  • 738 - rear-engine small parlor coach
  • 739 - rear-engine small transit bus
  • 740 - rear-engine transit bus
  • 741 - rear-engine gas-electic powered transit bus
  • 742 - rear-engine suburban bus
  • 743 - rear-engine parlor coach
  • 744 - 36 passenger, rear-engine transit bus similar to the 740 (experimental)
  • 745 - rear-engine sleeper coach
  • 746 - rear-engine diesel-electric transit bus

1200-series buses (1938-1940)

Old Look

The Old Look transit bus was introduced in 1940 by Yellow Coach beginning with the production of the model TG-3201 bus.

Parlor coaches (1940-1944)

  • PG-2501 - 25 passenger, rear-engine
  • PG-2502 - 25 passenger, rear-engine
  • PG-2503 - 25 passenger, rear-engine
  • PG-2504 - 25 passenger, rear-engine
  • PD-2901 "Cruiserette" - 29 passenger, rear-engine
  • PG-2901 "Cruiserette" - 29 passenger, rear-engine
  • PG-2902 "Cruiserette" - 29 passenger, rear-engine
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