This article is about the defunct vehicle manufacturer that specialized in buses. For the American forklift manufacturer, see Crown Equipment Corporation.
Crown Coach Corporation
1978 Crown Supercoach school bus, Model 2A-426-11
Industry
Transportation
Founded
Los Angeles, California (1904 (1904))
Founder
Don Brockway
Defunct
March 1991 (March 1991)
Fate
Dissolved
Headquarters
Los Angeles, California (1904–1985) Chino, California (1985–1991)
Area served
West Coast, United States
Products
School Buses Fire Apparatus
Number of employees
270 (1991)
Parent
GE Railcar (1987-1991)
The Crown Coach Corporation (founded as the Crown Carriage Company) is a defunct American bus manufacturer. Founded in 1904, the company was best known for its Supercoach range of yellow school buses and motorcoaches; the former vehicles were marketed throughout the West Coast of the United States. Competing alongside Gillig Corporation and similar its Gillig Transit Coach, the two companies supplied California with school buses nearly exclusively into the 1980s.
Crown also was the manufacturer of custom-built vehicles derived from its buses, including the Firecoach line of fire apparatus.[1][2]
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 a result of declining demand for school buses at the time.[3][4]
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