New York Fifth Avenue Coach Company 1885-1960

"New York City's legendary Fifth Avenue Coach Company was famous for its double-deck buses as well as its role as a leader in public transportation in New York City. It was the first bus company with gasoline-powered buses and air-conditioning, and also the last company in the U.S. to use double-deckers, which were also the last double-deck buses built in America. Inside are all the various bus designs used: o Early horse-drawn omnibuses and buses brought over from England, o Early Brills built on French chassis, o Buses Fifth Ave Coach built in their own garage on 102nd Street using American-made chassis, o Later Yellow Coaches and GMCs."