1935-36 Vintage Fageol / Twin Coach

I may be wrong on this - not much left of that bus - it appears that it might be a 1935-36 vintage Fageol/Twin Coach, the type that was used by Eastside Omnibus Corporation (New York City) in 1st and 2nd Avenue routes. These were known as double-enders because of a small engine on front and rear. They also had a rather pronounced awning over the front windshield and rear windows. Just a stretch on my memory. Hope this helps, hope I am correct.

Regards

Pappy

Like a photo story out of a Hemmings Auto book, where did this bus come from and how did it turn up here of all places, as it's final resting place!

Notes on Fageol Twin Coach found in Woods at

I came across the Fageol Twin Coach in the Library of the Deutsches Museum in Munich during 5 years of residence in
1985-90. I was searching for "firsts". I was hunting for the first
dropped-centre rear axle like that on our Bristol Lodekka bus.

I am pretty sure it was featured in the pre-war magazine named "Grosskraftwagen und Kraftomnibus". It had a small six-cylinder gasoline engine under the floor and between the wheels on each side, with interconnected throttles, clutches and gear linkages, to make it the same to drive as a one-engined bus. The rear axle had two separate final drives with a connecting cross-beam, but no differential, as the drive-lines were separate. On cornering, the speeds of the engines self-adjusted according to the radius of curvature of the highway.

If you have a date of introduction, you could send a letter or e-mail to the Museum, and the road-traffic department might try to locate the article for you, as I know of no other sources on this vehicle

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Hope this is helpful. Kind regards from

Michael T Knowles (Bath, UK)

First off - I have NO clue how I wandered onto this page but I had some tears in my eyes when I did.....If I'm not mistaken this bus is in the woods behind Conifer Village Mobile Home Park on CNTYRT 54 - if so this bus held my imagination captive for many years when I was a kid. It gave me a wonderful place to play and it took me for rides in my own fantasy land to visit a number of my made up places. I always wondered how the bus got there but then again, I don't really want to know...the mystery behind it is more fascinating then any real story could be!