GMC OLD LOOK BUSES
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SAN FRANCISCO MUNICIPAL RAILWAY:

GMC 2724, a TDH-4801 formerly SCRTD no. 5104, is at Woods Division on November 14, 1981. Slide is labeled Traction Photographs, San Francisco. Photo moved from another page 05/22/14.

GMC 2746, a TDH-4801 formerly SCRTD no. 5174, originally Metropolitan Coach Lines 643, is seen at West Portal circa 1982 in a slide from my collection. Next to it is GMC 3353 on 48 Quintara 24th Street. Photo moved from another page 05/22/14.

HARVEY BUS:

Harvey Bus Lines Inc. was a privately owned company that provided bus service in the Manhattan Blvd. and Estalote Ave. areas of the West Bank of Jefferson Parish. The route began about 1974. In March 1982, Jefferson Parish reduced its operating subsidy to the company from at least $6000 monthly to $2000. The owner kept service going until the Parish stopped the subsidy in March 1983; the company went out of business immediately. Westside Transit Lines then began a modified route which was discontinued in October 1983.

The company owned at least two buses, both of which from the following photos appear to be GMC TDH-3501s from the late 1960s. Original owners unknown. One bus has the GMC marque on the front, the other does not.

This Times-Picayune newspaper photo shows an apparently unnumbered GMC bus on Estalote Ave. circa March 1982. Photo moved from another page 05/22/14.

GMC bus number 1812 at the Gretna Ferry Terminal sometime in 1982. Photo moved from another page 05/22/14.

FORMER SCRTD GMC COACH:


This converted GMC old look from Southern California RTD was parked at 16th and 7th Sts. in San Francisco on February 24, 2010. Note the air conditioner on the roof. Four photos added 09/14/17.