Unitrans 4916-4919

prior to their service with Unitrans.

These were the first Unitrans buses to be equipped with power steering or 8-cylinder engines. They were painted in the standard Unitrans paint scheme of the 1980s (a white lower-half and a black upper-half, with red and blue stripes running just below the point where the upper and lower halves meet). Having been sold, they are no longer part of the Unitrans fleet.

Technical specifications

Manufacturer: The Flxible Company

Model: 111CC-D6-1 New-Look

Date built: 1973

Engine: Detroit Diesel 8V-71 diesel

Length: 40 feet

Width: 8½ feet

Seating capacity: 49

Original operator: Sacramento Regional Transit District

Date acquired by Unitrans: Late 1980s

Current status: 4918 was involved in an accident that resulted in significant damage to the front of the bus in 1995 and never returned to service. All were retired and sold in 1996.

References

* [http://www.unitrans.com/ Unitrans Homepage] , "unitrans.com", retrieved on 2006-12-17

* [http://www.flickr.com/groups/unitrans/pool/ The Unitrans Pool] , "flickr.com", retrieved on 2006-12-28

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050205165743/www.omot.org/roster/flxlist/index.html Ohio Museum of Transportation - Flxible Transit Coach Production Lists] , "omot.org", archived on 2005-08-28 on "archive.org", retrieved on 2007-02-04

*Stauss, Ed (1988). "The Bus World Encyclopedia of Buses", Woodland Hills, CA: Stauss Publications. ISBN 0-9619830-0-0

*McKane, John (2001). "Flxible Transit Buses - 1953-1995 Photo Archive", Hudson, WI: Iconografix. ISBN 1-58388-053-4