'Surface Transportation # 1737'

[Mr. Linsky]

Seen in a factory photo taken at Allentown, Pennsylvania is fleet number 1737 - a 1948 Mack Model C-45-DT (serial 4638) and one of 185 (1600 to 1784) delivered to Surface Transportation Corporation of New York between May and June of that year.

This was the first of five orders of C-45-DT's received by the company between 1948 and 1953 totaling 335 buses which augmented an already large fleet of post war GM Diesels and became the backbone of the fleet serving virtually the entire borough of the Bronx and a number of key Manhattan routes including Broadway and Third Avenue.

The company, an offshoot of the Third Avenue Railway System and one of the largest private transit operators in the country, fell into financial difficulties in the mid fifties and was purchased by Fifth Avenue Coach Company in 1956 which, in turn, was taken over by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's MABSTOA division in 1962.

The photo is rare because it provides a peek at a Surface Mack before it ever entered the 'demolition derby' that we call the streets of New York City!

Photo courtesy of the Mack Truck Museum.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York

Brentwood, Ca. office

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Seen in a factory photo taken at Allentown, Pennsylvania is fleet number 1737 - a 1948 Mack Model C-45-DT (serial 4638) and one of 185 (1600 to 1784) delivered to Surface Transportation Corporation of New York between May and June of that year.

This was the first of five orders of C-45-DT's received by the company between 1948 and 1953 totaling 335 buses which augmented an already large fleet of post war GM Diesels and became the backbone of the fleet serving virtually the entire borough of the Bronx and a number of key Manhattan routes including Broadway and Third Avenue.

The company, an offshoot of the Third Avenue Railway System and one of the largest private transit operators in the country, fell into financial difficulties in the mid fifties and was purchased by Fifth Avenue Coach Company in 1956 which, in turn, was taken over by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's MABSTOA division in 1962.

The photo is rare because it provides a peek at a Surface Mack before it ever entered the 'demolition derby' that we call the streets of New York City!

Photo courtesy of the Mack Truck Museum.

Mr. Linsky - Green Bus Lines, Inc., Jamaica, New York

Brentwood, Ca. office

Nice looking Mack!