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On 2/3/2021 at 1:13 PM, DavidW said:

As some of you might know, the rarest bus in the MTHA fleet is Grey Goose #20:

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It's one of only four model T36-2L (Scenicruiser knock-off) coaches built in 1955/56 by Western Flyer Coach. The four units were:

  1. Thiessen Transportation #19 (Grey Goose #20) (now MTHA #20) [s/n 8-56]
  2. Grey Goose Lines #19 [s/n 15-55]
  3. Moore's Trans-Canada Lines #19 [s/n 16-55]
  4. Eagle Bus Lines #19 [s/n 9-56]

This was discovered in a Manitoba scrapyard just a few days ago:

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It's clearly one of the three other WFC T36-2L's. It's been modified, especially at the rear. It's also in pretty bad shape. We don't know which of the other three it is.

It's a remarkable find.  We had general information about two of the other three, including reports that one of them had been spotted in an Edmonton junkyard some years ago. This unit might have been on the road, in it's modified form, in the last decade or two.

Wow, that's a nice find! I wonder, would it be worth trying to get a hold of it for some parts if nothing else?

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The Annual General Meeting of the Manitoba Transit Heritage Association is the evening of the last Monday in May. 7pm Monday 30 May 2022 in the "Transit Break Room" inside the maintenance garage ('G") at Fort Rouge Garage.

 

If you think you might want to join the MTHA this is a great opportunity to check us out.

If you're thinking attending please let me know, either through a direct message on this board or by email to  contact@mtha.ca .

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The MTHA has been for some time working on converting our OBI Orion 01 bus to a rolling museum.  We have removed most of the seating and installed display cabinets, installed photo walls, and have reversed the back two rows of seats to face a wide-screen TV where we intend to project photos and videos as part of the displays.

Last week we were able to put up 31 photographs on the photo wall.  The wall holds 32 photos, and the photos are mounted with velcro so they can be changed out.

Here are some photos of the photo walls:

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If you have any transit-related artifacts you would like to contribute to the displays inside the bus, please contact me to let me know.

 

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3 hours ago, Isaac Williams said:

So, according to mtha.ca, the MTHA is planning on displaying their buses at the Sunday Night Cruise at the Pony Corral at Grant Park on August 7th, 2022, at 4 PM. Does anyone know any other details, like which buses they plan on displaying?

Why would you wanna ruin the surprise. lol

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We have been working hard to marshal drivers and ready buses. This will be our first multi-vehicle display in many years. 

We're anticipating having six buses available. Exactly which ones depends a bit in which units are operating or can be repaired in time. I know the 1954 GM is ready, and we're expecting to debut the Museum Bus [1979 OBI Orion 01]. What else appears will be "as available"...

 

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1 hour ago, Mark Walton said:

The GM badge is early 80s vintage; the original was GMC.

751 was purchased in 1971 from General Motors in the United States and was built in Pontiac, Michigan.

This was done because GM Canada could not supply the required air conditioning.

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17 hours ago, Isaac Williams said:

A few interior shots on 107 and 751, taken by me.

107:
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751:
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What are those displays on the ceiling by the front door of both buses? They look like Next Stop Displays which they didn't have when they were in service with Transit.

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On 8/9/2022 at 7:12 PM, DavidW said:

751 was purchased in 1971 from General Motors in the United States and was built in Pontiac, Michigan.

This was done because GM Canada could not supply the required air conditioning.

True, and Pontiac-built buses of that vintage originally had the GMC front nameplate. I guess 751's original one was lost and no others were available? 

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1 hour ago, Mark Walton said:

True, and Pontiac-built buses of that vintage originally had the GMC front nameplate. I guess 751's original one was lost and no others were available? 

+1. The product branding was changed to "GMC" for the third generation of New Look bus ca. 1968-71. The 1959-67 "GM" plates were of this earlier design:

First generation:

http://www.barp.ca/bus/alberta/ets/ets1960tdh5301/ets434-2.jpg

Second generation (incorrectly installed on a fourth generation model):

http://www.barp.ca/bus/alberta/ets/ets1975t6h5307n/ets372-j1.jpg

So that plate on 751 is in fact from a 1982-86 model Canadian-built fourth generation bus. IIRC, the branding was changed back to GM in 1982 to match the branding on the TA60-102N articulated buses delivered the same year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_New_Look_bus#Third_generation_(1968–1971)

To the credit of the MTHA, there are in-service shots of that bus from 23 years ago that show it with that same plate, so it must have been swapped out much earlier in the bus' life.

http://www.barp.ca/bus/manitoba/winnipeg/1971t6h4521a/0751.jpg

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The Annual General Meeting of the Manitoba Transit Heritage Association, Inc., will take place Friday 26 May 2023 7:00PM - 9:00PM in Headingley, Manitoba.  RSVP is requested if you plan to attend the meeting, and if you would like to ride to and from the meeting by MTHA vintage bus.

Annual membership in the MTHA is CAD $25.00.  Memberships can be purchased through  www.mtha.ca  .

If you would would like to attend you can email  contact@mtha.ca  .  RSVP's will receive a reply with details about the location of the AGM and the arrangements for the vintage bus transportation.

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