I have this notorious yellow school bus from Herpa in HO.
Can somebody point is the model based on some prototype? From which era is this bus? I remember the similar one from the early Tom Hanks movie "Bachelor Party"...
That is an international chassis that dates to the 80's, maybe late 70's,no earlier. mh.
Thommo,
this Herpa bus looks exactly like the one I used to ride during my high school days in Washington State, back in 1973/1974. This type of bus has been around probably since the 1960´s and I guess it still is.
Wikipedia will give you some more info - you can find the corresponding page here.
One of the best known manufacturers of school buses is Thomas Built Buses, a division of Daimler Trucks of North America LLC.
A google search will show it's a eighties International, possibly a Bluebird school bus.
Just from memory, I think the swing-out stop sign on the side is a much more recent addition, probably from the 90s or later. This came later than safety laws about the red flashers, requiring traffic in both directions to stop.
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m horton,
You beat me to it.....That's exactly what it is. ALSO a gas v8 engine made by harvester.
Cheers Frank
This bus is not a Thomas, it is a Blue-Bird (as per the logo on the bus).
The bluebird website says that they build their on chassis (or at least that they are custom built). The engine is a Cummings Diesel, they also have an environmental engine of some sort.
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Not all busses used diesels, some districts used gas engines as they start easier in the winter,circa the eighties. mh
Above posters are right Blue Bird body on an International chassis. Mr B is correct in pointing out that the swinging sign is a fairly new requirement. I can't tell if the one in the photo has an 8 way light system (a yellow and red light at each corner) another requirement in this day and age. (Edit: when I blew the photo up, I can see it does have the 8 way lighting system.) When I started driving one of the beasts 27 years ago I don't think the 8 ways were required, but they were coming. The signs have been around awhile, but not required until recently. Not sure of the year of the chassis. As well as Blue Bird there are Thomas bodies and International makes bodies also.
Have fun,
Richard
Not sure I'd call it "fairly new." I remember learning that lesson in kindergarten. In 1987.
Kindergarten: 1953. Not much has changed.
Here's a link to a variety of buses: http://busexplorer.com/SchoolBus/BlueBirdFrame.html
Jay
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MisterBeasley Just from memory, I think the swing-out stop sign on the side is a much more recent addition, probably from the 90s or later. This came later than safety laws about the red flashers, requiring traffic in both directions to stop.
Back when I was in the first grade (1980), the buses we had with the yellow flasher lights all had stop signs on the side that swung out. So, they've been around for a while. The older buses that just had the red flashers (no yellow) did not have swing-out stop signs.
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