Topic: Puzzle #1888 - Greyhound Model 719 "Super Coach" by Yellow Coach

[Otto Puzzell]

Know the story? For 1 point, please respond below and identify the vehicle pictured.  

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[Allemano]

Recently you seem to be on the bus trip..

[Otto Puzzell]

We seem to have some bus fans here. Without any coaching, I decided to take them on a tour they might enjoy.

[Allemano]

I'll be posting a truck & bus group puzzle soon. Hope it will be enjoyable as well.

[Otto Puzzell]

As long as it doesn't linger forever in the Rookie and Expert zones....

[Allemano]

Maybe exclusive for Pros & Feature Writers, though I recently experienced a lack of interest in that section.

BTW: do you're waiting for something moved?

[Otto Puzzell]

Maybe exclusive for Pros & Feature Writers, though I recently experienced a lack of interest in that section.

BTW: do you're waiting for something moved?

No worries there - I discarded my photo (with ID) when you posted the car, since I didn't want to re-post.

Kicking myself, I am.

[Carnut]

We seem to have some bus fans here. Without any coaching, I decided to take them on a tour they might enjoy.

Ouch!

[hondast]

Super Coach 719 by Yellow Coach with Detroit Diesel Engine?

[Otto Puzzell]

We seem to have some bus fans here. Without any coaching, I decided to take them on a tour they might enjoy.

Ouch!

[Otto Puzzell]

Super Coach 719 by Yellow Coach with Detroit Diesel Engine?

That easy, was it?

In 1934 Yellow Coach hired a talented designer and engineer named Dwight Austin, who had been vice-presi­dent for design of the old Pickwick manufacturing opera­tion and who had later acquired the former Pickwick fac­tory to build Nite Coaches and small Utility Coaches on his own. Austin's principal contribution to Yellow was an invention patented by him, whereby a bus engine could be placed transversely across the back of the vehicle. It con­sisted of a set of gears so arranged as to turn the output shaft by more than 90 degrees and was known as "angle drive." The final shaft then ran forward at an angle to an offset differential. Angle drive permitted greater utiliza­tion of the available space within the bus body as well as easier access to the engine for maintenance than could be had with longitudinal placement of the motor. These advantages were achieved with somewhat greater ex­pense, not only in terms of the initial cost of the mechanism itself, but also because fuel economy was not as good with the loss in efficiency created by the extra set of gears.

Designer Dwight Austin was also directly involved in the de­velopment of new over-the-road Yellows in the mid 1930's. Financed by Greyhound, the Model 719 "Super Coach" with transverse rear engine and under-floor luggage space brought a new standard of passenger comfort to the inter­city bus industry.

[hondast]

 

Thanks. Some of the models produced in the USA and Australia are really beautiful.