page_title: Streamliner
section_title: Buses
hierarchical_section_title: Streamliner / Buses
caption_attribution_description: GM FuturLiner front view at Flint, Michigan, antique car show
context_page_description: A streamliner is a vehicle incorporating streamlining in a shape providing reduced air resistance. The term is applied to high-speed railway trainsets of the 1930s to 1950s, and to their successor "bullet trains". Less commonly, the term is applied to fully faired recumbent bicycles. As part of the Streamline Moderne trend, the term was applied to passenger cars, trucks, and other types of light-, medium-, or heavy-duty vehicles, but now vehicle streamlining is so prevalent that it is not an outstanding characteristic. In land speed racing, it is a term applied to the long, slender, custom built, high-speed vehicles with enclosed wheels.
context_section_description: Many buses adopted a stylish streamline look in the 1930s with tests showing that streamlined design reduced fuel costs.
  Starting in 1934, Greyhound Lines worked with the Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company for its Series 700 buses, first for Series 719 prototypes in 1934, and from 1937 as the exclusive customer for Yellow's Series 743 bus, which Greyhound named the "Super Coach" and bought a total of 1,256 between 1937 and 1939.
  General Motors also custom-built twelve streamlined Futurliners for its 1936 Parade of Progress and, later the 1939 New York World's Fair and travelling exhibits.
caption: GM Futurliner #10 (built 1936) now owned by the National Auto & Truck Museum
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