Unitrans 4123-4127

prior to their service with Unitrans.

At the time, these were the only 35-foot Unitrans buses to be equipped with 8-cylinder engines, and as such were known as being relatively fast buses by the Unitrans staff. They were also affectionately known as "Baby Flexes" by the Unitrans staff because of their shorter length when compared to the 40-foot Flxible New Looks also on the Unitrans fleet. They were painted in the standard Unitrans paint scheme of the late-1980s/early-1990s (a white base with red and blue stripes running from front to back along the mid-section of the bus). Having been sold, they are no longer part of the Unitrans fleet.

Technical specifications

Manufacturer: The Flxible Company

Model: 45102-8-1 New-Look

Date built: 1975

Engine: Detroit Diesel 8V-71 diesel

Length: 35 feet

Width: 8½ feet

Seating capacity: 41

Original operator: Sacramento Regional Transit District

Date acquired by Unitrans: Late 1980s

Current status: 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