Thomas Built Buses is an American maker of yellow school buses and related activity and commercial buses, based in High Point, North Carolina. It began in 1916 as the Perley A. Thomas Car Works, which first rebuilt and then built streetcars, started producing school buses in 1936 and took its present name in 1972. It was the last major school bus maker still under family control until Freightliner bought it from the Thomas family in October 1998, which put it inside DaimlerChrysler and later Daimler Trucks North America. Besides bus bodies it builds its own chassis for the Saf-T-Liner EFX and HDX buses.
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Source Freightliner Trucks (Wikipedia)Freightliner history, 1998 acquisitionQuote, Freightliner history, 1998 acquisition
Freightliner acquires bus manufacturer Thomas Built Buses, based in High Point, North Carolina.
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Thomas Built Buses, Inc. (commonly shortened to Thomas) is an American bus manufacturer.
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Founded in 1916 as Perley A. Thomas Car Works, the company was renamed in 1972 to better represent its primary product lines.
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Thomas Built Buses, Inc. (commonly shortened to Thomas) is an American bus manufacturer.
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Thomas Built Buses, Inc. (commonly shortened to Thomas) is an American bus manufacturer.
Part Of: Bus Transport, Lead, school buses
Best known for its production of yellow school buses, Thomas produces other bus designs for a variety of usages.
In Group: Bus, Truck and Bicycle Makers, Lead, bus maker
Thomas Built Buses, Inc. (commonly shortened to Thomas) is an American bus manufacturer.
Part Of: Daimler Trucks North America, Lead, parent
Headquartered in High Point, North Carolina, Thomas has been a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America (the parent company of Freightliner) since 1998.
View the SourceThomas Saf-T-Liner C2 (Wikipedia)
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The Thomas Saf-T-Liner C2 (often shortened to Thomas C2) is a bus manufactured by Thomas Built Buses since 2004.
Thomas Minotour (Wikipedia)
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The Thomas Minotour is a bus body manufactured by Thomas Built Buses since 1980.
Thomas Saf-T-Liner Conventional (Wikipedia)
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The Thomas Saf-T-Liner Conventional (often shortened to Thomas Conventional) is a bus body manufactured by Thomas Built Buses from 1972 to 2002.
Thomas Saf-T-Liner FS-65 (Wikipedia)
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The Thomas Saf-T-Liner FS-65 (often shortened to Thomas FS-65) is a bus manufactured by Thomas Built Buses from 1997 to 2006.
Thomas Vista (Wikipedia)
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The Thomas Vista is a model line of buses that was manufactured by Thomas Built Buses from 1989 to 1998.
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