Crown Coach Corp
Subtitle: school buses, fire trucks and custom coaches
By: Louk Markham
Contributors: Iconografix
Publisher: Iconografix
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hudson, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781583882757
Subjects: School buses; Fire engines; Commercial vehicles; Crown Coach Corporation (Los Angeles, Calif.); Pictorial works; History
Other titles: Crown Coach Corporation
Description: "Donald Martin Brockway founded the Crown Carriage Company in 1904, the same year that Henry Ford started Ford. With no engineering department at this time, Brockway would draw the outlines of the vehicles in the dirt on the production floor as they were conceived. This book tells the story of Crown's various endeavors from 1900s horse-drawn wagons through early 1990s alternative fueled buses is chronicled and highlighted with vintage photographs and factory memorabilia including advertising items, coach emblems, and production statistics. Highlights include custom built coaches Lockheed's mobile missile tacking station, Art Linkletter mobile video coaches, and the first air conditioned tour coach in Hawaii. The company built one of the largest fleets of fire trucks in the nation for the Los Angeles City and County fire departments and other agencies, and sent high quality custom built vehicles as far away as places like Juneau, Alaska, South America and the Middle East"--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Crown Coach model identification; title: The early years; title: World War I and the Roaring Twenties; title: Aircraft and other curiosities; title: "Delux" school buses; title: Crown acquires Moreland Truck Chassis line; title: World War II and the baby boom; title: Crown distributes other makes; title: The Cown Supercoach; title: The Crown Firecoach; title: Special coach division; title: Crown-Ikarus articulated coach; title: The last decade; title: A fleeting glance; title: The next mile.