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60-529: Crown also was the manufacturer of custom-built vehicles derived from its buses, including the Firecoach line of fire apparatus . For 80 years, Crown was headquartered in Los Angeles, California ; in 1984, the company relocated its headquarters and manufacturing to Chino, California , where it operated until its closure. In March 1991, Crown Coach (then a subsidiary of GE Railcar ) ended operations as

120-491: A second-stage manufacturer , producing fire apparatus bodies for a variety of customer-supplied chassis upon request. Shortly after the sale of Crown Coach in 1979, the Firecoach line was discontinued in favor of bus manufacturing. In 1991, Crown ended operations altogether. The production of fire apparatus by Crown Coach can be traced back to World War II. As was the case with other vehicle manufacturers, all production

180-591: A 20-year/100,000 mile warranty for the body. During the mid-1950s, Crown made several changes to the Supercoach. In 1954, the company made the Cummins NHH available as an option, producing the first diesel-engined school bus. In 1955, Crown developed the largest school bus in the United States. In expanding the bodyshell to 40 feet (then the maximum for both school buses and motorcoaches) and adding

240-516: A Hall-Scott gasoline engine. In 1939, Crown acquired Moreland Motor Truck Company; as part of the acquisition, Crown moved to a larger factory in Los Angeles. Additionally, the Supercoach was changed from a mid-engine to a rear-engine configuration for 1940. During World War II, the production of Crown Coach was diverted towards military use; most bodies produced by the company were fire engine bodies for four-wheel drive truck chassis. Following

300-568: A change as Crown introduced its first Firecoach snorkel truck (bucket lift). In 1966, Crown produces its first company-produced tiller-based aerial device, though a 2-axle ladder truck made its debut the same year. In 1969, the first quint version of the Firecoach made its debut as Crown introduced the Firecoach TeleSquirt. 2-door enclosed 4-door enclosed 2-door wide-body enclosed Available as 2-axle tiller truck Water Tender 65' 75' 85' 55' 75' During

360-415: A compartment roof design for its open-air cabs; the design became retrofitted to many in-service Firecoaches as well. During the 1970s, fully enclosed cabs grew in popularity. In 1977, Crown Coach made the first major change to the Firecoach cab with the introduction of a "wide-cab" configuration; sold alongside its predecessor, the wide-cab Firecoach became standard in 1979. When first designed in 1951,

420-560: A fire engine, the Firecoach was also produced as water tenders , tiller and ladder trucks , and quints (TeleSquirts). Produced as open-air cabs, enclosed cabs (standard after 1965), and wide-cab (standard after 1979). Crown Coach HPO Bookmobile 35-foot and 40-foot chassis; 42-64 passenger capacity Crown Firecoach Crown Firecoach is a nameplate used for various types of firefighting apparatus manufactured and marketed by Crown Coach Corporation in Los Angeles, California , from 1951 to 1985. Although sold primarily in

480-830: A global scale, for diesel engines above 3 liters. Its Emission Solutions unit develops and supplies catalytic exhaust systems and associated products to the medium and heavy-duty commercial diesel engine markets. Cummins Filtration designs, manufactures and distributes heavy-duty and light-duty air, fuel, hydraulic and lube filtration, chemicals and exhaust system technology products for diesel and gas-powered equipment. In contrast Cummins Electronics designs engine control units and sensors for Cummins diesel engines. Cummins Distribution Business consists of engine and power generation distribution as well as service and parts. The distribution unit of Cummins consists of 17 Cummins owned distributors and 10 joint ventures, covering 90 countries and territories through 234 locations. The Holset Engineering Co.

540-522: A joint venture with Dongfeng Automobile Company , as well as Guangxi Cummins Industrial Power with LiuGong . One of the most successful joint ventures is the joint venture with Foton called Beijing Foton Cummins Engine Company. This joint venture developed the ISG/X12 engine platform in the mid 2010s. The ISG/X12 in China has surpassed 240,000 units per year making it the highest volume heavy duty engine in

600-652: A joint venture with the Kirloskar Group . The ownership structure of the joint venture was divided as follows: In 1996 Cummins Inc. bought Kirloskar shares. Now it is a Cummins Inc. subsidiary. As of 2013, the Cummins group had revenues over $ 1.5 billion, 20 factories and 9000 employees in India. Cummins conducts a significant part of its R&D in India at the Cummins Research and Technology centre that

660-419: A major shift in company production occurred as Murillo M. ("Brock") Brockway , the son of the company founder, was put in charge of school bus production. Viewing school buses as a growth market in the suburbs of southern California, Brockway discontinued all wagon production in favor of bus and truck body production. To expand production and improve shipping of its vehicles, a much larger factory in Los Angeles

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720-457: A network of more than 600 company-owned and independent distributors and approximately 7,200 dealers. The Cummins Engine Company was founded in Columbus, Indiana on February 3, 1919, by mechanic Clessie Cummins and banker William Glanton Irwin. The company focused on developing the diesel engine , which was invented 20 years earlier. Despite several well-publicized endurance trials, it

780-403: A new mid-engine Supercoach. Heavily influenced by motorcoach design, Crown intended it primarily for school bus use. Introduced in 1949, the all-new Supercoach used unit-body construction with high-strength steel in place of a separate chassis; to combat corrosion, all body panels were aluminum. To prove the durability of the Supercoach to potential customers, Crown offered the Supercoach with

840-428: A pattern 53 Block. The case has been settled, but some qualified Chrysler owners may receive $ 500 for repairs to the block, which was alleged to crack and create a coolant leak. In April 2013, Cummins utilized technology developed by Westport Innovations to ship large natural gas-fueled engines to truck manufacturers in the United States as trucking companies began converting portions of their fleets to natural gas and

900-498: A rear-engine version, as well as a raised-floor configuration (along with a version similar to the Scenicruiser ); the latter two provided for increased luggage space. To supplement its motorcoach offerings, in 1969, Crown became one of the first distributors of Quebec-built Prevost motorcoaches in the United States. The Firecoach was produced through the 1960s and 1970s with relatively few changes. While sold primarily across

960-400: A result of declining demand for school buses at the time. At the beginning of the 20th century, Don M. Brockway found himself working at the first hardware store in Los Angeles, California . To supplement its income, the hardware store sold parts for wagons and carriages. In 1904, Brockway founded his own company, as Crown Carriage Company began life producing horse-drawn carriages . While

1020-496: A second rear axle, Crown raised the seating capacity from 79 to 91 passengers. As a later option, some school districts ordered the Supercoach with a 16th row of seats, further expanding seating to 97 passengers; as with its Gillig counterpart, the 97-passenger Supercoach is the highest-capacity school bus ever sold in the United States. From the 1950s to the 1970s, school bus production on the West Coast evolved separately from

1080-665: The West Coast region of the United States (California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Arizona, and Nevada), other examples of the Firecoach were sold to fire departments in Hawaii , Illinois , and New Jersey , as well as in Mexico and Kuwait. Using the mid-engine chassis of the Crown Supercoach school bus as a basis, the Firecoach was produced in several configurations for fire departments. In addition, Crown Coach served as

1140-570: The 1980s ended, the Crown Supercoach had reached over 40 years of production with only minor evolutionary changes made through its production. In 1989, the California Energy Commission began a study to test low-emission school buses, using methanol-fueled vehicles as part of the test; Crown Coach was a manufacturer selected to take part of the study, using a methanol-fuel Detroit Diesel 6V92 engine. The fitment of

1200-781: The 20-minute lab tests to verify compliance with the Clean Air Act , but then quietly disabled the emissions controls during normal highway cruising, thereby emitting up to three times the maximum allowed NOx pollution. In December 2023, Cummins was fined $ 1.675 billion by the U.S. Justice Department for violations of the Clean Air Act. Cummins was found to have installed devices designed to bypass or disable emissions controls on 960,000 Dodge and Stellantis RAM pickup truck diesel engines between 2013 and 2023. It will also pay $ 325 million in remedies and recalls. Cummins reported Total CO2e emissions (Direct + Indirect) for

1260-539: The Carpenter RE, a similar coach to the Crown Supercoach in 1992. Crown built its first all-metal school bus body in 1930. Mid-engine version (1937) Rear-engine version (1939) Produced as school bus and motorcoach Crown Supercoach Series II Motorcoach/Tourcoach Crown Coach Highway/Intercity coaches Produced as both school bus and motorcoach First diesel-powered school bus (1955) First tandem-axle school bus (1956) 1984–1985 First produced as

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1320-494: The Crown B-3 between 1930 and 1933. 1932 would mark several major changes for the company. As part of his taking over day-to-day operations of Crown from his father, MM Brockway introduced a ground-breaking school bus body; elements of its design would change school bus design forever. To improve forward visibility, the new bus was a cab-forward design, with the driver sitting next to the engine and radiator. To improve safety,

1380-485: The Crown Supercoach product line, the cab-forward Firecoach was of a mid-engine layout. Although equipped with Hall-Scott gasoline engines like the Supercoach, the Firecoach was equipped with much larger versions (935 and 1091 cubic inches vs. 590). In 1958, to improve braking ability, Firecoaches (alongside all other Crown Coach vehicles) were equipped with 10-inch wide brake drums. For 1963, an automatic transmission became an option. The first diesel-engine Firecoach

1440-806: The Cummins Onan Corporation, whose products remain in service today. This Business Unit was formed recently, following a merge of the Power Generation Unit and High Horsepower Sub-Division. On August 22, 2017, United Rentals announced it had acquired all mobile power generation assets from Cummins. To maintain fleet and customer service continuity, some Cummins employees joined United Rentals. Cummins Component Business Unit consists of emission solutions, filtration (Fleetguard), fuel systems, turbo technologies (Holset), and electronics. The Cummins Turbo Technologies unit designs and manufactures turbochargers and related products on

1500-520: The Cummins RV family only strengthens the brand and more uniformly speaks to our manufacturers and consumers,” said Jodie Wilson. “The brand changing will not affect product or service offerings, but will help us to continue on our promise of delivering dependability across the globe.” Rebranding occurred globally on all marketing activities, as product branding changed across all manufacturing plants beginning July 2017. President Joe Biden visited

1560-821: The Cummins plant in Fridley, Minnesota on April 3, 2022. It was part of his "Investing in America" tour. Cummins had announced a US$ 1 billion initiative to produce clean energy technology, including electrolyzers for hydrogen cells in Fridley. Exhaust and emissions after-treatment company Nelson Industries was purchased in 1999, due to the increasing importance of exhaust after-treatment systems for meeting future emissions standards. The division changed its name to Cummins Emission Solutions to be identified more closely with their parent company. Cummins has some joint ventures with Chinese manufacturers, such as Dongfeng Cummins,

1620-695: The Cummins product line. The ISG/X12 is the foundation for all Cummins future engine platforms. Other entities were Cummins Beijing, Chongqing Cummins Engine, Xi’an Cummins Engine, Wuxi Newage Alternators, Xiangfan Fleetguard, Wuxi Cummins Turbo Technologies. Cummins India is the Indian subsidiary of Cummins. Cummins India is publicly traded on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE). Cummins began its India operations on 17 February 1962 in

1680-405: The Firecoach was initially configured as a 2-axle pumper. During its production run, the Firecoach would be introduced in a variety of other configurations for customer requests. In 1955, the first water tender Firecoach was introduced. In 1956, a Firecoach was introduced as a tiller truck; the Firecoach chassis was a tractor towing an American LaFrance aerial device. In 1961, aerial devices saw

1740-418: The Firecoach, including water tenders , tiller and ladder trucks , and quints (TeleSquirts). In the United States during the years immediately following World War II, population growth of suburbs expanded, fueled by the post-war baby boom. As that segment of the population entered school, demand for new schools (and school buses to transport their students) rapidly rose. In 1946, Crown began development on

1800-480: The Fun Roads brand will also be retired. As Onan will now be repositioned as an RV product line, with the new rv.cummins.com website and social media platforms serving as tools for RVers across the country to find relevant information like product specs and a sales and service locator. “Looking to unify Cummins into one cohesive, unified brand, we decided that consolidating both products (engines and generators) into

1860-773: The Holset brand name. In 1986, Cummins began the acquisition of Onan and completed it in 1992. Since then, Onan has evolved into Cummins Power Generation (now Cummins Power Systems), a wholly-invested division of Cummins. The Onan name continues to be used for modern versions of their traditional engine-driven generators for RV, marine, commercial mobility, home standby, and portable use. Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) announced that it will be unifying its brand strategy across its Power Systems business segment, which provides high-speed engines from 760 – 4400 HP and power generation equipment from 2–3,500 kW, including standby and prime power gen sets, alternators, switchgear and other components. Currently,

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1920-509: The Supercoach in 1980, focusing entirely on school buses. By 1982, sales of the aging Firecoach had largely collapsed, leading to a temporary hiatus in its production. After 34 years of production and with slightly over 1,800 examples produced, the final Firecoach was produced in 1985. During 1984, Crown moved its headquarters and production from Los Angeles to Chino, California in San Bernardino County . To diversify beyond

1980-581: The Supercoach). In 1986, the partnership ended, with 243 examples produced. At the end of 1986, Crown Coach entered into receivership ; in addition to the closure of production, the Los Angeles factory (which it had owned since 1939) was sold. In April 1987, the company was purchased at auction by GE Railcar. After a reorganization as Crown Coach, Incorporated, production in Chino restarted in July 1987. As

2040-733: The Supercoach-based product line, Crown entered into a joint venture with the Hungarian firm Ikarus to produce articulated mass-transit buses. At 102 inches wide and 60 feet long, the Crown-Ikarus 286 was the longest and widest bus ever produced by Crown Coach. Bodied by Ikarus in Hungary, the transit bus was imported to Crown in California for final assembly, including its interior and American-sourced powertrain (shared with

2100-933: The Universal set until its retirement in 1987. The two versions of Engine 51, the 1965 Crown Firecoach (assigned as Engine #60; the final open-cab fire engine of Los Angeles) and the 1973 Ward LaFrance (donated to Universal for filming use) are now owned by the County of Los Angeles Fire Museum Association and have been fully restored. Cummins Cummins Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs, manufactures, and distributes engines , filtration, and power generation products. Cummins also services engines and related equipment, including fuel systems , controls , air handling, filtration , emission control , electrical power generation systems , and trucks . Headquartered in Columbus, Indiana , Cummins sells in approximately 190 countries and territories through

2160-530: The West Coast, examples of the Crown Firecoach were purchased by fire departments across the United States. In 1965, a roof was made standard for all Firecoaches, in the interest of firefighter safety. In 1979, the Brockway family sold Crown Coach Corporation to a local truck distributor; this began a sequence of ownership changes. Due to slow sales, Crown ended production of the motorcoach version of

2220-402: The bus was designed with an integral chassis; the windows were mesh-reinforced safety glass. Alongside the standard braking system, the bus also was equipped with two backup braking systems. In 1935, the cab-forward school bus was updated and dubbed the Crown Supercoach . For 1937, to increase seating capacity to 79 passengers, Crown produced its first mid-engine Supercoach; the bus came with

2280-599: The engine required an extensive update of the rear bodywork of the Supercoach, leading to a matching update of the front bodywork. Although not a completely new design, the Series II, as it was named, was the first major update to the Supercoach since 1948. GE railcar would find the business unprofitable and would seek a buyer. After an unsuccessful attempt at finding a buyer in 1990, Crown Coach would be shut down on March 31, 1991. Crown's difficulty in competing with manufacturers of smaller, less durable but cheaper school buses

2340-492: The first two seasons of the 1972-1977 NBC / Universal television series Emergency! , multiple Firecoaches of the Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACoFD) served as media props while in active service. On the television show, Engine 51 was portrayed by two different 1965 Firecoach Triple engines. Engine 60 (the fire engine stationed on the Universal set) was used for scenes filmed on

2400-401: The first vehicles were built in a wooden shed, the company moved to a brick factory in 1910. After 1910, as carriages gradually became "horseless", Crown experimented with building truck bodies. In 1916, the company built its first bus body for transit use; it was an open-air design heavily influenced by wagon design. After World War I, Crown built its first body for school bus use. In 1921,

2460-462: The ground up, both Crown and Gillig chose to serve as the West Coast distributor for other manufacturers. At various times, Crown would market Wayne , Blue Bird , and Thomas Built Buses in California. Sharing much of its underlying structure with the Crown school bus, the intercity Crown Supercoach was marketed with several configurations. Along with an underfloor configuration, Crown also produced

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2520-402: The largest fine to date. The fines came after manufacturers evaded testing by deliberately deactivating emissions controls during highway driving to give the appearance of being in full regulatory compliance during standard laboratory testing. The manufacturers also agreed to spend more than $ 1 billion to correct the problem. The trucks used engine ECU software to engage pollution controls during

2580-415: The late 1940s. In 1949, Crown engineer Roy Hardy (a former Mack executive) commenced work on a dedicated design for a company-produced fire engine. The Crown fire engine would compete with the recently introduced American LaFrance 700 cab-forward fire engine, but built to Crown Coach standards and quality. A key part of the design behind the new fire engine was adapting the chassis and front bodywork of

2640-405: The late 1970s, sales of the Crown Firecoach began to decline as the design began to age. Following the sale of Crown Coach in 1979, sales largely collapsed, leading to an initial discontinuation of the line in 1982. In 1984, production resumed of cab and chassis vehicles; the bodywork was completed in partnership with a California fire engine manufacturer. In 1985, the final Crown Firecoach chassis

2700-507: The mid-engine Supercoach school bus for the vehicle. With the blessing of company president M.M. Brockway, construction of the first prototype was completed in 1951. Taking on the name "Crown Firecoach" in relation to its configuration and its relation to the Supercoach bus, the Firecoach would remain a demonstration vehicle for two years, as Crown both completed its development and marketed it to potential customers. In 1965, following an increase in school bus production, Firecoach production

2760-533: The most popular engines built is the 5.9-liter I6 engine used in the Dodge Ram heavy-duty pickups starting in 1988. In 2007, a 6.7-liter version of the Cummins straight-six engine became optional on the RAM pickup. In 2008, Cummins was a named defendant in a class-action suit related to 1998-2001 model year Dodge Ram trucks, model 2500 or 3500, originally equipped with a Cummins ISB 5.9 liter diesel engine built using

2820-525: The natural gas distribution network in the United States began to expand. Cummins has a technical center in Darlington , England, for developing products for the European, Middle Eastern, and Asian markets. Cummins Power Systems Business Unit consists of alternators, automatic transfer switches, commercial power systems, consumer systems, engines, and paralleling systems. All of the above stem from

2880-605: The portfolio features the Cummins, Cummins Power Generation and Cummins Onan brands. With immediate effect, the branding will be consolidated under the Cummins brand. The Cummins Power Generation and Cummins Onan brands will be retired and the Onan name synonymous with mobile gensets, will be repositioned as a generator product line under the newly unified Cummins brand in the RV market. Cummins Inc. will also be permanently changing all “Fun Roads” branding to Cummins RV moving forward as well and

2940-437: The rest of the United States, with the Crown Supercoach and the similar Gillig Transit Coach having a near-monopoly of the school bus segment in California and a large share of the rest of the West Coast. Outside of the region, many operators continued use of lower-capacity conventional-type buses based upon truck chassis. For users seeking lower-capacity buses on the West Coast, in place of developing an all-new model line from

3000-442: The set; Engine 127 was used for scenes where location filming was completed. In 1973, LACoFD purchased a large number of Ward LaFrance P-80 Ambassador pumpers; the company donated an additional P-80 unit to Universal to serve as Engine 51, ending the need to take active fire engines out of service periodically for filming. While Engine #127 was destroyed in a later traffic accident, Engine #60 returned to its permanent assignment on

3060-403: The war, the company returned to bus production, beginning design work on the 1948 Supercoach. As a side project, engineers at the company designed an all-new cabover fire engine, using the mid-engine chassis of the Supercoach bus. The first Crown Firecoach prototype was completed in 1951, after two years of design work. Alongside the initial pumper design, Crown developed several configurations of

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3120-673: Was a British company that produced turbochargers , primarily for diesel and heavy-duty applications. In 1973 the company was purchased by Cummins after briefly being owned by the Hanson Trust . Holset now operates facilities in China, India, Brazil, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2006, the division officially changed its name to Cummins Turbo Technologies to be identified more closely with its parent company. The turbocharger products still use

3180-500: Was assembled in 1964 (a decade after its introduction in Crown buses). In 1954, Crown Coach produced its first Firecoach with an enclosed cab; a 4-door cab made its debut in 1963. Although an enclosed cab had been introduced as an option, into the mid-1960s, the majority of Crown Firecoaches were constructed with open-air cabs. Following the Watts riots of 1965, in order to provide better security for firefighters, Crown Coach introduced

3240-672: Was cited by company president Bruce Freeman in October 1990 as a primary factor in GE's decision to leave the school bus market. The assets of Crown Coach would be purchased by Carpenter Body Works in May 1991. This included tooling and intellectual property of the defunct company. Carpenter hoped to restart production of the Crown Supercoach II , but deemed the unibody construction too expensive for mass production. Carpenter would introduce

3300-419: Was diverted towards the armed forces following the outbreak of the war. In the case of Crown Coach, the company was asked to produce fire engine bodies for a chassis produced by Ford/Marmon-Herrington. In the postwar era, though Crown Coach concentrated its resources on updating its bus products (on what would become the 1949 Crown Supercoach school bus), the company built a few more chassis-based fire engines in

3360-667: Was established in 2003. Cummins has built a technical centre in Pune which houses over 2500 engineers, called CTCI (Cummins Technical Centre India). Cummins India has made significant contributions to local skill development by establishing the MKSSS's Cummins College of Engineering for Women , a women-only engineering college in Pune. In 1998, the EPA announced fines totaling $ 83.4 million against Cummins and six other diesel engine manufacturers,

3420-868: Was not until 1933 that their Model H engine, used in small railroad switchers, proved successful. The Cummins N Series engines became the industry leader in the post-World War II road-building boom in the United States, with more than half of the heavy-duty truck market using Cummins engines from 1952 to 1959. In the 1960s, the company opened an assembly plant in Shotts , Scotland (closed in 1996). By 2013, Cummins had operations in 197 countries and territories. Cummins Engine Business Unit consists of aftermarket support, mid-range, heavy-duty, and high-power engines. Its markets include heavy and medium-duty trucks, buses, recreational vehicles (RV), light-duty automotive, and several industrial uses, including construction, mining, marine, oil, gas, railroad and military equipment. One of

3480-542: Was opened in 1923. In pursuit of developing heavier-duty and higher-capacity school buses, Crown introduced the first school bus with dual rear wheels in 1927 (on a Reo chassis). In 1930, it produced its first all-metal school bus body (on a Mack chassis), with a 43-passenger capacity. In 1929, Aircraft Division of the Crown Carriage Co. licensed the Kinner Airster airframe and it was manufactured as

3540-529: Was produced, closing a 34-year production run. Crown Coach produced the Firecoach in a variety of different types and configurations, including pumpers, tillers, aerial trucks, and tender trucks. In addition to the fire engines based on its Supercoach bus line, Crown also assembled fire engines on truck chassis (by customer request). During the production of the Firecoach, Crown bodied the following truck chassis: Crown Coach also built custom-designed fire vehicles from Supercoach and Firecoach chassis: During

3600-524: Was split into its own division within the company. As with its Supercoach counterpart, the Firecoach saw only gradual changes during its production run. Built largely to order for individual fire departments, the firm produced the Firecoach in a variety of different types and configurations, including pumpers, tillers, aerial trucks, and tender trucks. While nearly all Firecoaches were two-axle configurations, several "tractor" units were built to tow aerial devices and for various specialty uses. Derived from

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