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Founded at the turn
of the century and still owned and managed by the second and
third generation of the founder, Crown has built an enviable
reputation over a period of more than fifty years in the field
of commercial transportation. In the "old days", the Crown
Carriage Company was a leader in the field of horse-drawn
vehicles and carriages on the Pacific Coast, and as methods of
transportation improved and developed, Crown kept pace with the
trends, and in many instances a step or two ahead.
For many years
following the introduction of the "horse-less" carriage, Crown
built the finest custom built commercial bodies to be found
anywhere. Practically every important Western user of fine
commercial bodies selected Crown as the finest available.
Realizing the
future of the bus transportation industry, Crown began to
manufacture bus bodies as far back as 1915. In those days
neither the metropolitan nor the transit type motor coach had
been developed, and the custom built bus body mounted on the
commercial truck chassis launched the bus transportation
industry into subsequent eras of remarkable growth and
importance. Again Crown could point with pride to a select yet
wide list of customers, many of which were pioneers in the motor
stage industry. While Crown has continued to build inter-city
and sightseeing coaches throughout the years for a select
clientele, it became the largest producer of the integrally
built transit type school bus in the country, and from known
records engineered and manufactured the first integral transit
type school bus in the nation. Since the advent of the integral
transit type coach, Crown has engineered and manufactured a
complete unit. The chassis is completely engineered and
fabricated by Crown, with only the finest mechanical components
known to the industry. The integrated body is likewise a Crown
product, engineered and constructed to meet and exceed the most
demanding requirements of our modern highway transportation
systems.
In addition to the
manufacture of motor coaches, Crown engineered and is in
production with a revolutionary new line of fire apparatus known
as the Crown Fire Coach, designed around the transit bus
principle. While only in production for approximately one year,
this new line of fire apparatus has met with enthusiastic
acceptance. Among others, the city of Los Angeles has ordered
and re-ordered the Crown Fire Coach, and soon will have a fleet
of ten in service.
Crown has also
engineered and is in production with a new highway cargo truck
known as the Crown Cargo Coach. This truck incorporates the
underfloor amidship horizontal engine, and the cab ahead of the
front axle principles, thereby providing the maximum loading
area, and permitting a vastly improved weight distribution on
the axles.
The more than fifty
years of forward thinking engineering and quality craftsmanship
qualifies Crown to contend that Crown Supercoaches are the
finest obtainable today. We invite your investigation and
comparison.
Taken from the
brochure "CROWN SUPERCOACHES: The Result of More Than Fifty
Years of QUALITY CRAFTSMANSHIP" . . . Crown Body and Coach
Corporation. (Circa 1950-1960) |