New Flyer is a Canadian multinational bus manufacturer , specializing in the production of transit buses . New Flyer is owned by the NFI Group , a holding company for several bus manufacturers. New Flyer has several manufacturing facilities in Canada and the United States that produce the company's main product, the New Flyer Xcelsior family of buses.
18-602: The Shore Line Trolley Museum is a trolley museum located in East Haven, Connecticut . Incorporated in 1945, it is the oldest continuously operating trolley museum in the United States. The museum includes exhibits on trolley history in the visitors' center and offers rides on restored trolleys along its 1.5 mi (2.4 km) track as the Branford Electric Railway . In addition to trolleys,
36-433: Is a 1976 Flyer E800 which the museum acquired in 2009 and which was able to operate at the museum at that time; it is not operational as of 2023 but is expected to become serviceable again eventually. The other trolley bus is ex-Philadelphia 210, which is identical to No. 205 (and was acquired at the same time) and is being used only as a source of parts. Trolley car Too Many Requests If you report this error to
54-549: Is repaired and restored at the museum. In August 2011, Hurricane Irene caused the worst flooding in the museum's history, with water up to 2 feet deep covering the grounds and almost 90 streetcars damaged. The damaged portion of the streetcar line returned to operation in May 2012, while repair of streetcars continued. The collection also includes a small number of "trackless trolleys" (trolley buses) and motor buses (diesel- or gasoline-powered buses). In fall 2008, construction
72-514: The NDP government in power to divest Flyer Industries from government ownership. On July 15, 1986, Jan den Oudsten, a descendant of the family who formed Dutch bus manufacturer Den Oudsten Bussen BV , purchased Flyer Industries from the Manitoba government, changing its name to New Flyer Industries Limited . New Flyer designed and tested North America's first low-floor bus in 1988 and delivered
90-729: The New Flyer MiDi, was based on the design of the Alexander Dennis Enviro200 . Alexander Dennis engineered and tested the bus, and it was built and marketed by New Flyer under contract. During the partnership around 200 buses were delivered to 22 operators in Canada and the U.S. In May 2017, New Flyer and Alexander Dennis announced their joint venture would end and production of the bus would transition to Alexander Dennis' new North American factory in Indiana, where it
108-696: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 548876429 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:47:28 GMT New Flyer Industries New Flyer was founded by John Coval in 1930 as the Western Auto and Truck Body Works Ltd in Manitoba. The company began producing buses in 1937, selling their first full buses to Grey Goose Bus Lines in 1937, before releasing their Western Flyer bus model in 1941, prompting
126-499: The company to change its name to Western Flyer Coach in 1948. In the 1960s, the company further focused on the urban transit bus market. In 1971, the then-financially struggling Western Flyer was sold to the Manitoba Development Corporation, an agency of the government of Manitoba , and renamed Flyer Industries Limited . In 1974 the opposition Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba had urged
144-558: The exterior appearance of the bus. In June 2012 New Flyer, in a joint venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries , the Manitoba Government, Manitoba Hydro and Red River College , unveiled a fully electric battery-powered bus . In May 2012, New Flyer and Alexander Dennis announced a joint venture to design and manufacture medium-duty low-floor bus (or midi bus) for the North American market. The bus, called
162-759: The first production model, called the D40LF, to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1991. In 1994, New Flyer delivered the first compressed natural gas bus in North America and the world's first hydrogen fuel cell powered bus. In 1995, the company delivered the first low-floor articulated bus in North America to Strathcona County Transit . In March 2002, New Flyer was acquired by KPS Capital Partners , an investment company that specializes in turning around struggling businesses, for $ 44 million. Later that year Jan den Oudsten retired as CEO. He
180-497: The intervening years, BERA's collection has grown to become the third largest collection of electric railway equipment in North America, with a focus on equipment from Connecticut and New York City . It operates a variety of streetcars, rapid transit cars and work cars throughout the year. BERA currently does business as the Shore Line Trolley Museum which is run almost entirely by volunteers. Antique equipment
198-534: The line was about 70% completed by mid-2011, but was suspended when flooding from Hurricane Irene led to a change in priorities. Construction later resumed, and the trolley bus line was completed in 2017. Regular operation – proposed to take place about once a month – has not yet begun (as of 2023), because the vehicles need more work (such as painting) before they are considered ready for public rides. The Shore Line Museum also owns two other trolley buses: Ex- Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( Boston-area ) 4037
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#1732772848884216-723: The museum also operates restored subway cars, a small number of both trolleybuses and conventional buses. The museum encompasses the Branford Electric Railway Historic District , which was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The museum was incorporated in August 1945 as the Branford Electric Railway Association (BERA), a non-profit historical and educational institution. The Connecticut Company (or ConnCo), which operated most of
234-532: The purchase an indicator that the company's operational and financial turnaround had been accomplished. On August 19, 2005, New Flyer became a publicly traded company on the Toronto Stock Exchange , renaming the company to New Flyer Industries Canada ULC and creating the publicly traded parent company NFI Group Inc. 2005 also saw a restyling of New Flyer's popular low-floor coaches with new front and rear endcaps, to modernize and streamline
252-419: The remaining 1.5 mi (2.4 km) portion of the line on private right-of-way between East Haven and Short Beach. Over the following year the museum moved virtually its entire collection at the time, including a number of just-retired ConnCo streetcars, onto its property via the existing and still-electrified track connection with Connecticut Company. After ConnCo severed the track connection in 1948, BERA
270-549: The streetcar lines in the state of Connecticut, had been making plans since the early 1930s to abandon its "F" route, cutting it back in stages from its long-time terminus of Stony Creek until by April 1946 it ended in front of the post office in Short Beach , its original terminus when the line was opened for service on 31 July 1900. The last revenue car to operate under ConnCo auspices left Short Beach shortly after midnight on March 8, 1947, at which time BERA took possession of
288-561: Was later inducted into the American Public Transportation Association 's Hall of Fame for his work at the company. In 2003, King County Metro in Seattle placed an order for 213 hybrid buses, the world's first large order for hybrid buses. On December 15, 2003, New Flyer was purchased by private equity firms Harvest Partners and Lightyear Capital . The company's CEO, John Marinucci, called
306-507: Was on its own. The 1.5 mi (2.4 km) line started out as double track but one of the tracks was torn up and sold for scrap to raise money. Eventually 20-year bonds were issued by the museum and its fortunes improved. In 1957 a new visitor's center, named for traction pioneer Frank Julian Sprague and known as Sprague Station, was built out of brick at the East Haven end of the line with help from funds donated by his widow. Over
324-549: Was started on a short trolley bus line, to allow the museum's trolley buses to operate. The line is a loop about 750 ft (230 m) long, with a branch into the maintenance and storage building. The first section was tested under power in April 2009 by 1947-built ACF-Brill trolley bus 205, which the museum acquired from the Philadelphia trolley bus system when it was retired from service by SEPTA in 1981. Construction of
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