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The Blue Bird Corporation is a large manufacturer of Bus es and luxury Motorhome s. Blue Bird's corporate headquarters are in Ft Valley , Georgia , US . Blue Bird's factory in Mount Pleasant, Iowa was closed in 2002 . It continues to operate factories in Canada and Georgia . Blue Bird Corporation is not affiliated with another company with a similar name, Blue Bird Group , a taxi operator in Indonesia. ALBERT LUCE SR.: ALL-STEEL SCHOOL BUS BODIES IN 1927 Blue Bird was founded in 1927 by Albert L Luce , Sr. His company became a leading producer of School Bus es in the Americas . That same year, both Blue Bird Body Company and Wayne Works of Richmond, Indiana reportedly began building all-steel Bus bodies, an innovation which soon replaced the wooden bodies which were then in common use around the United States. DR. FRANK W. CYR: FATHER OF THE YELLOW SCHOOL BUS Most school buses turned the now familiar yellow in 1939 . In April of that year, Dr. Frank W. Cyr , a professor at Teachers College in New York who became known as the " Father Of The Yellow School Bus ," organized a Conference that established national school bus construction standards, including the standard color of yellow for the school bus. Engineers from Blue Bird Body Co., Chevrolet , International Harvester , Dodge, and Ford Motor Company , as well as paint experts from DuPont and Pittsburgh Paint showed up. Together with the transportation administrators, they met for 7 days and agreed on 44 standards, including the color and some mechanical specifications such as body length, ceiling height, and aisle width. It became known officially as "National School Bus Chrome". The color was selected because Black lettering on that hue was easiest to see in the semi-darkness of early morning and late afternoon. The distinctive color later became officially known as "National Glossy School Bus Yellow ". Cyr's conference, funded by a $5,000 Grant from the Rockefeller Foundation , was also a landmark event inasmuch as it included transportation officials from each of the then 48 states, as well as specialists from school bus manufacturing and paint companies. The conference approach to school bus safety, as well as the yellow color, has endured into the 21st century. GROWTH IN SCHOOL BUS USE AFTER WORLD WAR II Following World War II , continuing a transition from One-room School s, there was a nationwide movement in the U.S. to consolidate schools into fewer and larger ones. This meant that fewer students were attending school in their immediate Neighborhood , particularly as they progressed into High School . This led in turn to a large increase in the demand for school buses. Blue Bird has always been a leading name in Church Bus And School Bus Safety efforts. The company became a major school bus body builder in the post-World War II period. ALL-AMERICAN: A SUCCESSFUL TRANSIT-STYLE U.S. SCHOOL BUS Wayne Corporation , Crown Coach Corporation , Gillig Corporation , and others had experimented and developed some early transit-style school buses. Crown and Gillig products with a flat-front were used extensively on the West Coast in the 1950s through the 1980s. |
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