page_title: Twin Coach
section_title: Motor buses
hierarchical_section_title: Twin Coach / Production overview / Motor buses
caption_attribution_description: English: A Boston Elevated Railway bus, likely on the 58 or 60 route, deboards passengers at Kenmore Square in the 1940s. The bus is a Model 40-R(DE) diesel-electric built by Twin Coach in 1937.
context_page_description: Twin Coach was an American vehicle manufacturing company from 1927 to 1955, located in Kent, Ohio, and a maker of marine engines and airplane parts until the 1960s. It was formed by brothers Frank and William Fageol when they left the Fageol Motor Company in 1927. They established the company in Kent to manufacture and sell buses with a new concept design. The body structure of this new bus was unique in that the body also became the frame and two engines – "twin" engines – were used to allow for larger passenger loads. This concept was patented by William B. Fageol.
  Over the years, Twin Coach made transit buses, trolley buses, small delivery vehicles, Fageol six-cylinder gasoline/propane bus and marine engines, Fageol four-cylinder marine engines, and aircraft and truck components. The company was sometimes referred to as "Fageol-Twin Coach". The company was acquired by Flxible in 1955 and merged with it, but use of the "Twin Coach" name in marketing continued for a few years, and the name was briefly revived in the late 1960s by a related company called Highway Products, Inc.
context_section_description: Twin Coach also built motor buses (buses powered by internal combustion engines).  Fuels included at least gasoline and propane.  Between 1927 and 1934 alone, the company built more than 1,100 motor buses, including 21 with gas-electric drive. Bus production continued through to the time of the company's acquisition by Flxible, in the 1950s.
  For many years the Fageol 'Twin Coach' was used to take passengers from Canada to US (and back) via the 'Detroit-Windsor Tunnel' under the Detroit River.
caption: Twin 1937 Model 40-R(DE), in Boston Elevated Railway service, c. 1940
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