Question: Mid Bus was formed by employees of the company that was founded in 1909 as what?

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Superior Coach Company: Superior Coach is a former body manufacturer of the American automotive industry.  Founded in 1909 as the Garford Motor Truck Company, Superior is best known for constructing bodies for professional cars (hearses) and yellow school buses.  Following major downturns in both segments in the late 1970s, Superior was liquidated by its parent company in 1980.  From 1925 to 1980, the company was based in Lima, Ohio.

Vermont Translines: Vermont Translines is an intercity bus company founded by its parent company, charter bus company Premier Coach, in 2013.  The bus company mainly serves the US Route 7 and US Route 4 corridors in the New England state of Vermont.  Aided by $400,000 in annual federal grant money disbursed by the Vermont Agency of Transportation, the company also utilizes Greyhound's ticketing system and connects with other Greyhound bus routes, primarily in Burlington, Albany and White River Junction.  Service on two routes between Burlington, Vermont and Albany, New York and between Rutland, Vermont and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire officially began June 9, 2014, with intermediate stops at towns and cities between.  The restart of intercity bus service for places like Rutland marked the first time some places along the current routes had seen any intercity bus service at all since Greyhound left Rutland in 2008, and in towns like Bennington since 2005.

Singapore Bus Service: Singapore Bus Services (SBS) was a public bus operator in Singapore formed in 1973 from the merger of three private bus companies; the Amalgamated Bus Company, Associated Bus Services and United Bus.  The government-sanctioned merger was undertaken to improve service standards of the bus transport system, which formed the backbone of public transport then.  The fledgling company was listed on the Stock Exchange of Singapore in 1978 under the name of Singapore Bus Service (1978) Limited.

North Western Road Car Company (1923): The North Western Road Car Company was a bus company in Stockport, England, formed in 1923 from the existing bus services of the British Automobile Traction Company Limited (itself a subsidiary of the British Electric Traction Company Limited) in Macclesfield.  The company operated bus services in five counties (Cheshire, Lancashire, West Riding of Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire) through a combination of growth and the acquisition of other bus companies, such as the takeover in 1924 of the Mid-Cheshire Motor Bus Company Limited, which brought new operations in Northwich and Flixton.  The company also operated express coach services to London, North Wales and Yorkshire.

Bee-Line Bus System: The Bee-Line Bus System, branded on the buses in lowercase as the bee-line system, is a bus system serving Westchester County, New York.  The system is owned by the county's Department of Public Works and Transportation.  It was founded on May 1, 1978, by the then Westchester County Department of Transportation to consolidate the bus system with thirteen private bus companies and has been given control over the buses, fare structure, routes, and services.  By the 1980s, the bus system had an identity problem in who was providing the service.  On May 19, 1987, WCDOT officially named the bus service "The Bee-Line System" with a 'bee-in-flight' mascot.  The Westchester County Department of Public Works and Transportation currently contracts out to two private bus companies to provide service in Westchester County and the surrounding counties: Yonkers-based Liberty Lines Transit, Inc., the main company that either bought out or obtained franchises from the other twelve bus companies over the years, operates buses on all but three bus routes; and Cortlandt Manor-based P.T.L.A. Enterprise, Inc., a small company that operates buses on routes 16, 18, and 31.

History of the PTE bus operations: The Passenger Transport Executive (PTE) bus operations were the bus operating divisions of the passenger transport executives in the United Kingdom.  In 1986 they underwent a process of deregulation and privatisation, forming some of the largest private bus companies in the UK outside London, with all being sold to their employees or management.  Despite their relative size and lucrative operating areas, none of the companies survived beyond the late 1990s, with all falling into the hands of the major bus groups, who had their origins in privatised regional subsidiaries of the former National Bus Company and the Scottish Bus Group.

Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority: The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) is a public authority responsible for the public transportation oversight of Erie and Niagara counties in the state of New York.  The NFTA, as an authority, oversees a number of subsidiaries, including the NFTA Metro bus and rail system, the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, the Niagara Falls International Airport and NFTA Small Boat Harbor.  The NFTA Metro bus and rail system is a multi-modal agency, utilizing various vehicle modes (diesel bus, diesel-hybrid bus, CNG bus, light rail and cut-away van), using the brand names: NFTA Metro Bus, NFTA Metro Rail, NFTA Metrolink and NFTA PAL (Para-transit Access Line).  In addition, the NFTA also owns and manages a number of properties, including the Buffalo Metropolitan Transportation Center in Downtown Buffalo (which serves as the agency's headquarters); the Niagara Falls Transportation Center on Factory Outlet Blvd. the Portage Road Transit Center in Niagara Falls; and a number of strategically located bus loops and transit centers in the Buffalo Niagara region.  Of note, many of the bus loops have been in continuous operation since the days of the International Railway Company, a predecessor to the NFTA.  Agency-wide, the NFTA employs 1,500 full-time and part-time employees.  There are three business centers that operate as the NFTA organization: Surface Transportation, which handles ground transportation throughout Erie and Niagara counties, Aviation, which handles air related business at the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport and Niagara Falls International Airport and Property Risk/Management, which operates the NFTA-Boat Harbor and handles other properties that are owned and/or operated by the NFTA.

Kavim: Kavim () is an Israeli bus company.  It was founded in 2000 and provided lines in the eastern Gush Dan region - the towns/cities Kiryat Ono, Petah Tikva, Or Yehuda, Givatayim and others.  In February 2005, Kavim expanded to the north, where it started providing bus lines in Afula, Bet She'an and the Nazareth area.  In 2006, more routes are planned in Petah Tikva and Rosh HaAyin.  Many of Kavim's current routes were transferred from the Dan Bus Company.  In 2011, the bus company Illit was merged with Kavim.  In 2012, Kavim won the tender for the Heshmonaim cluster which indluces the cities Ramla, Lod and Modi'in, and the tender for cluster of regional bus routes in the Netanya Hadera area.  Kavim started the operate the routes in both clusters in 2013.  In 2015, Kavim's bus routes in Afula were transferred to Superbus bus company.  In 2017 Kavim won the tender of the Valley of Elah and Beitar Illit cluser that contains routes that Kavim currently operates and few routes of Superbus in the Beit Shemesh area.

Mid Bus: Mid Bus was a corporation which specialized in manufacturing customized school buses.  Formed in 1981 by former employees of Superior Coach Company in Lima, Ohio, it grew from a dozen employees working in a small facility in Lima to become one of the country's largest manufacturers of smaller school buses, moving to a much larger facility a few miles north of Lima in 1995.

Bus depots of MTA Regional Bus Operations: MTA Regional Bus Operations operates local and express buses serving New York City in the United States out of 29 bus depots.  These depots are located in all five boroughs of the city, with one located in nearby Yonkers in Westchester County.  21 of these depots serve MTA New York City Transit (NYCT)'s bus operations, while the remaining eight serve the MTA Bus Company (the successor to private bus operations taken over in the 2000s).  Theses facilities perform regular maintenance, cleaning, and painting of buses, as well as collection of revenue from bus fareboxes.  Several of these depots were once car barns for streetcars, while others were built much later and have only served buses.  Employees of the depots are represented by local divisions of the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU), particularly the TWU Local 100, or of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU).

Supporting paragraphs: Mid Bus Superior Coach Company
Answer: Garford Motor Truck Company