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The Museum of Bus Transportation, which recently merged with the Antique Automobile Club of America, will be holding its annual Spring Fling on June 4. Activities will include bus displays, a flea market vendors selling bus memorabilia, and prizes awarded for buses in various categories. Members can attend the event without charge.
Bus Museum Spring Fling The Museum of Bus Transportation, which has merged with the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania, will be holding it’s first post pandemic Spring Fling June 4-5. The Fling is sort of a family reunion for bus history enthusiasts from all over the country and showcases the museum’s collection of more than 40 historic buses and dozens of visiting coaches – some coming all the way from California. In recent years the event has drawn nearly 500 visitors. There will be an informal outdoor town hall on Friday evening, and Saturday will feature the traditional bus show and a flea market for vendors selling bus memorabilia. As in the past, prizes will be awarded for the best of various categories of visiting buses, and there will be a “Parade of Champions” of the winning coaches. This year’s theme is The Golden Age of Buses – the 1950s and 1960s – but every year and model is more than welcome. 4 • National Bus Trader / May, 2021
Cost is $19 for non-members of the museum and free for members. Annual membership to the MOBT/AACAM is only $35 – hint hint. You can join online or at the Fling. For more information, to join, register or rent vendor tables, go to www. busmuseum.org or www.aacamuseum.org For more specifics on the event, or questions not addressed by the web page, you can e-mail info@busmuseum.org. ABC to Offer Vicinity Lightning Buses ABC Companies, a leading provider of motorcoach, transit and specialty passenger transport equipment in the USA and Canada, announced that it has placed an initial order for 10 Vicinity Lightning™ EV buses with its new U.S. distribution partner, Grande West, a leading supplier of electric, CNG, gas and clean diesel buses. The ABC distributorship supports Grande West’s focus on U.S. expansion as it begins marketing the fully Buy America compliant Vicinity™ heavy-duty midsize bus – the Vicinity Lightning™ EV and
Vicinity™ LT light duty models – to new and existing customers. The new Vicinity Lightning EV buses currently on order will bring a unique 28foot, low-floor offering to the U.S. marketplace. With a flexible floorplan utilizing proven components such as BMW sourced battery packs, modules and components, public and private customers will be able to offer zero emission transportation to a variety of passengers. Production units are slated for delivery to ABC in the third and fourth quarters of 2021 for resale into the U.S. “The size, flexibility and quality of the Vicinity Lightning EV bridges the gap between larger buses and lower passenger shuttles, with a very compact footprint which benefits the operators, drivers and passengers. We think it is a real win-win-win,” said Roman Cornell, president and chief commercial officer of ABC Companies. “The Vicinity Lightning EV joins the portfolio of zero emission vehicles ABC sells and services to meet the rapidly evolving batteryelectric market.”
