User:SteveCof00/New Bus Company

New Bus, Incorporated was a manufacturer of school buses in Chickasha, Oklahoma during the late 1980s.

History

In 1985, Superior Coach Company redesigned its full-size school bus product line. It was not well-received, and Superior ended full-size bus production by the end of the 1985 model year. Carl Greene Jr. was a Superior Coach bus dealer, in Chickasha, Oklahoma. After Superior ended production of its full-sized Type C product line in Lima, Ohio, Greene soon restarted production of the redesigned product line in Oklahoma. Initally, the enterprise was known as Carl-Built, Inc., later renaming itself as New Bus, Inc.

Late in the 1980s, General Motors had developed a chassis for front-engine Type D (transit-style) school buses, the S7. Although the S7 was to be widely available to the majority of bus manufacturers, the S7 became the primary chassis for only a single product (the Wayne Lifestar) and often suffered from supply problems, leading to its eventual discontinuation in 1989. A New Hampshire Wayne dealer created a solution for the GM supply problem by importing a chassis from South Korea and fitting them with American-sourced drivetrain components. These chassis were sold under the brand "Asia-Smith Motors".

Although many Asia-Smith chassis were fitted with Wayne Lifestar (or rarely, Ward President) bodies, New Bus developed an all-new front-engine transit body design based on its Type C. The New Bus Chickasha Front-Engine was introduced in 1989 and sold into 1990. Aside from its unusually boxy appearance, the Chickasha FE was also notable for a large blind-spot window ahead of the curbside entry door.

Products

• Conventional- produced on General Motors, Ford, and Navistar International chassis.
• Front Engine- produced on Asia-Smith Motors chassis
• Rear Engine- prototype

References

• http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/w/wayne/wayne.htm -Information on Asia-Smith chassis and Carl-Built, Inc.

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