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== Buses == [[File:London Bus Museum Transportfest 2013 019 (10383698196).jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.0|A preserved Greyhound Scenicruiser on display in the [[London Bus Museum]] in 2013]] Many buses adopted a stylish streamline look in the 1930s<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wt8DAAAAMBAJ&q=streamline+bus&pg=PA487|title=Streamline bus is like a dirigible on wheels|magazine=Popular Mechanics|date=April 1935|page=487|access-date=7 August 2010|archive-date=17 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517155446/https://books.google.com/books?id=wt8DAAAAMBAJ&q=streamline+bus&pg=PA487|url-status=live}}</ref> with tests showing that streamlined design reduced fuel costs.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kdoDAAAAMBAJ&q=streamline+bus&pg=PA185 |title=Wind-tunnel tests show streamline bus saves fuel |magazine=Popular Mechanics |page=185 |date=August 1936 |volume=66 |issue=2 |access-date=16 October 2020 |archive-date=17 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517155516/https://books.google.com/books?id=kdoDAAAAMBAJ&q=streamline+bus&pg=PA185 |url-status=live }}</ref> Starting in 1934, [[Greyhound Lines]] worked with the [[Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company]] for its [[Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company#700-series (1934β1937)|Series 700]] buses, first for ''Series 719'' prototypes in 1934, and from 1937 as the exclusive customer for Yellow's ''Series 743'' buses. Greyhound named these the "Super Coach" and purchased a total of 1,256 between 1937 and 1939.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yellow Coach Part 2, Yellow Coach Mfg. Co., Yellow Truck and Coach, Yellow Bus, Greyhound Bus, Silversides, GMC Truck, CCKW, DUKW, General Motors |url=http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/y/yellow_coach/yellow_coach2.htm |website=www.coachbuilt.com |access-date=22 March 2018 |quote=Through a number of significant updates and modifications Dwight Austin's Model 719 coach evolved into the diesel-powered, air-conditioned Greyhound Super Coaches of the late thirties and 40s....1,256 Yellow Coach Model 743s were constructed through 1939 |archive-date=16 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160716224306/http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/y/yellow_coach/yellow_coach2.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> General Motors also custom-built twelve streamlined [[GM Futurliner|Futurliners]] for its 1936 ''Parade of Progress'' and, later the [[1939 New York World's Fair]] and traveling exhibits.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gmheritagecenter.com/gm-heritage-archive/Featured_Innovations/1936_Parade_of_Progress.html|title=1936 Parade of Progress|work=Archive|publisher=gmheritagecenter.com|access-date=7 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024004455/https://www.gmheritagecenter.com/gm-heritage-archive/Featured_Innovations/1936_Parade_of_Progress.html|archive-date=24 October 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The popular two-level [[GMC (automobile)|GMC]] [[PD-4501 Scenicruiser]], which GM manufactured for Greyhound Lines between 1954 and 1956, exemplified the further streamlining that occurred in the company's bus designs in the years that followed World War II.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bluehoundsandredhounds.info/barscen.html|work=Bluehounds and Redhounds, the histories of Greyhound and Trailways|author=Duncan Bryant Rushing|accessdate=24 April 2020|title=The Scenicruiser and Previous Exclusive Coaches plus Related Pieces of the Historical Puzzle|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220155005/http://www.bluehoundsandredhounds.info/barscen.html|archive-date=20 February 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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