'New York City Omnibus # 2723'

[Mr. Linsky]

Pictured just south of the American Export Lines

Hudson River Pier 84 at Manhattan's 42nd. Street, we see fleet # 2723 - a

1948 GM TDH 4507 and one of eighty-three likenesses purchased in

increments between 1947 and 1948 operating for the New York City Omnibus

Corporation division of the Chicago based Omnibus Corporation.

The photo was probably taken sometime in the early fifties as evidenced

by # 2723's lack of directional signals which were installed by mandate

in the mid fifties along with a change to sealed beam headlights on the

Surface Transportation 4507 standing next to it.

By far, the GM TDH 4507 was the most popular bus that ever trundled the

streets of New York City and when you combine those operating for the

City of New York, Surface Transportation, Fifth Avenue Coach and its

affiliates, Green Bus Lines, Triboro Coach and Steinway Omnibus they

totaled fully one third of the 3,045 4507's produced.

# 2723's driver is in short respite while awaiting his next crosstown run to First Avenue.

Photo credit within frame.

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

Brentwood, Ca. office