Gillig

Gillig is an American bus manufacturer and the make under which every Gillig bus is sold. The company began in 1890 as a carriage shop in San Francisco run by Jacob Gillig, built custom car bodies as Gillig Brothers, and made school buses from the early 1930s. Its first dedicated transit bus, the Phantom, entered production in 1980, and the low-floor line followed in the late 1990s. Gillig is now the second-largest transit bus builder in North America, behind New Flyer, and builds its buses at a plant in Livermore, California, where it moved from Hayward in 2017. Since 2008 it has been owned by CC Industries, a Henry Crown company. Its range today is the Low Floor family, offered in diesel, hybrid, compressed natural gas, battery-electric and hydrogen versions.