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By Oliver Ogden

New York City's legendary Fifth Avenue Coach Company was famous for its double-deck buses as well as its role as a leader in public transportation in New York City. It was the first bus company with gasoline-powered buses and air-conditioning, and also the last company in the U.S. to use double-deckers, which were also the last double-deck buses built in America.

Inside are all the various bus designs used:

• Early horse-drawn omnibuses and buses brought over from England,

• Early Brills built on French chassis,

• Buses Fifth Ave Coach built in their own garage on 102nd Street using American-made chassis,

• Later Yellow Coaches and GMCs.

Softbound, 260 illustrations, 8.5”x11”, 112 pages