Motor Coach Industries

This article is about the bus manufacturer based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. For the Amtrak station in Michigan City, Indiana, see Michigan City Amtrak station.

Motor Coach Industries International Inc. (MCI) is a Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-based bus manufacturer. MCI specializes in manufacturing commuter and charter motorcoaches. The company has a strong presence in Canada and the United States with a few exports to other countries.

History

MCI's founder Harry Zoltok immigrated to Canada from Russia in 1928 and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In 1932, he partnered with Fred Sicinski and established a vehicle servicing company called the Fort Garry Motor Body and Paint Works, Ltd. A year later, they developed an 11 passenger body built on a Packard chassis.

Focus began to shift toward building their own intercity bus chassis and bus bodies. The company was renamed Motor Coach Industries (MCI) in 1941.

In 1948 Greyhound Lines of Canada at that time MCI's major customer, became a majority shareholder, purchasing 65 percent of the company. MCI was able to grow at a more rapid rate. In 1958 Greyhound Lines purchased 100 percent of the company. A manufacturing facility was established five years later in Pembina, North Dakota. Facing capacity constraints in the early 1970s, a subsidiary called Transportation Manufacturing Corporation was established in 1974 to manufacture coaches for Greyhound.

MCI purchased the transit division of General Motors (GM) in 1987. GM had decided to exit the bus manufacturing business. The manufacturing rights of the Rapid Transit Series (RTS) were transferred to TMC, and the RTS was produced in New Mexico. MCI produced the Classic in Canada.

In 1993, MCI became an independent corporation called Motor Coach Industries International Inc. It merged with DINA S.A. of Mexico the following year. MCI soon offered the Viaggio 1000 DOT for sale in the United States and Canada. It was manufactured in Mexico and used a DINA chassis with Marcopolo body. In the late 1999s MCI and DINA developed a new integral coach that would be manufactured in Mexico. This was the 35-foot MCI F3500. A longer intercity coach known as the G4100 and G4500 was also developed.

In 2000 DINA S.A. sold its holding in MCI to a private investment company. MCI retained the manufacturing facility in Mexico. However in 2003, it was closed. MCI invested further in their Winnipeg and Pembina facilities, increasing production by 2006.

In November 2015, New Flyer Industries announced its purchase of MCI for $445m USD.

Facilities

Service Centers

• Dallas, TX (9787 Clifford Dr., Dallas, TX)
• Lebanon, TN (215 Maddox Simpson Parkway, Lebanon, TN)
• Los Alamitos, CA (10850 Portal Dr., Los Alamitos, CA)
• Montreal, QC (1400 Rue Barre, Montreal, QC)
• Orlando, FL (3718 LB McLeod Rd., Orlando, FL)

Current Product Line

Highway Coach

• D-Series (D4000CL, D4500CL, D4000CT, D4500CT, D4500CTH, D4005, D4505, D45 CRT LE)
• J4500

Past Product Line

Electric Trolley Bus

• 40-TRY (1942)

Highway Coach

• Courier 50 (1950-1955)
• Courier 85 Series (1950-1952)
• Courier 90 (1953-1960)
• Courier 95 Series (1953-1960)
• Courier 96 (1955-1960)
• Courier 97 (1956)
• Courier 100 Series (1946-1949)
• Courier 200 Series (1947-1949)
• MC-1 (1959-1961)
• MC-2 (1960-1961)
• MC-3 (1961-1963)
• MC-4 (1963)
• MC-5 Series (1964-1980)
• MCC-5 Series (1964-1965)
• MC-6 (1969-1970)
• MC-7 (1968-1973)
• MC-8 (1973-1978)
• MC-9 (1979-1990)
• MC-12 Built primarily for Greyhound USA (1991-1999)
• A-Series (96-A2, 96-A3, 102-A2, 102-A3) (1985-1992)
• B-Series (96-B3, 102-B3 (1991-1993)
• 102-C3 (1987-1993)
• D-Series (102-D3, 102-DL3, D4000, D4500, D4000H, D4000N) (1992-present)
• E-Series (102-EL3, E4500) (1997-2013)
• F3500 (2001-2004)
• G-Series (102-G3, G4100, G4500) (2001-2004)

Transit

• 150 (1939-?)
• Classic (1987-1993)
• Articulated Classic (1992-1993)
• Worldbus (1990) (Experimental)