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1927 Blue Bird School Bus
Luce, Albert L, 1888-1962 and Ford Motor Company1927
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
This 1927 Blue Bird is the oldest surviving school bus in America. Albert Luce, Sr., built his first bus in 1925 by mounting a purchased wood body to a Ford truck frame. The body could not withstand the Georgia roads. Luce, convinced he could make a better bus, applied a steel framework under the wood body. His success led him to make school buses full time.
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- Title: 1927 Blue Bird School Bus
- Creator: Luce, Albert L, 1888-1962, Ford Motor Company
- Date Created: 1927
- Location: United States, Georgia, Perry, United States, Michigan, Dearborn, United States, Georgia, Marshallville, United States, Georgia, Perry
- Subject Keywords: Buses, Chassis (Vehicle component), Ford Model TT truck, Ford trucks, School buses, School children, Luce, Albert L, 1888-1962, Slade, Frank, Blue Bird Corporation, Houston County Motor Company
- Type: Objects
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=357533
- Object Name: School bus
- Object ID: 2007.73.1
- Image ID: THF90553
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Albert L. Luce, Jr.
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