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Description
Limited edition of
238.07
1950/53
GM TDH-5105 Demonstrator to San Francisco Municipal Railway #5105.
First
GM TDH-5103 model was a property of GM Engineering and was later used
as the pilot air-suspension job (TDH-5105-EXP 305). In 1953 it was painted
by GM in San Francisco Municipal Railway "wings" livery, numbered
5105 and sent to MUNI. At that time a ballot proposition was intended
to provide money to buy new buses for San Francisco. GM was very interested
as MUNI was the only big transit property in the country that had never
purchased any GM buses. This coach operated in revenue service in September-December
1953 on lines 14, 15, 71 and 72. The bond issue failed and coach was returned
to GM. In Summer 1956 it became one of two experimental air-conditioned
transits. In August 1958 it was sold to New Orleans Public Service.
Scale 1:48
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