Carpenter-Dodge School Bus, 1939
date: label: date made
content: ca 1936-1939
label: used date
content: 1936-1946
name: label: maker
content: Carpenter Body Works, Inc.
label: maker
content: Dodge Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This bus carried rural children to the Martinsburg, Indiana school in the 1940s. Busing enabled children to attend consolidated schools, which were larger than one-room schools and had better curricula, teachers, and facilities. All-steel school buses like this one were safer than earlier school buses, which had wooden bodies. The paint color, double deep orange, was common at the time, but yellow later became the standard color for school buses. This body was built by Carpenter Body Works of Mitchell, Indiana in 1936 and later was attached to a 1939 Dodge chassis.
place: label: Associated Place
content: United States: Indiana
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
label: See more items in
content: America on the Move
label: See more items in
content: Transportation
label: See more items in
content: Road Transportation
label: Exhibition
content: America On The Move
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Donated by Carpenter Body Works, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0600.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0600
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0600.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Carpenter/ Dodge school bus
label: Object Name
content: bus, school
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 11/16 ft x 7 15/16 ft x 22 11/16 ft; 2.6414 m x 2.4128 m x 6.9086 m