[PRCo] Re: Funeral cars

[Schneider Fred]

I do not recall every seeing one on PRC inventory after 1902.

But it was not necessarily western.   Remember the Philadelphia's  
Hillside, a Nearside with a pocket in the side for loading the casket?

The active combine semi-convertible in Lancaster was ironically  
number 13 and it was kept because of funerals.

In 1961 I was driving through the town of Coatesville with a truck  
loaded full of school supplies.   This is the town made famous in  
2009 for all the arson cases.   I was stopped at a light and coming  
the other way was a hearse.   Behind it was the only other vehicle in  
the funeral procession:  a GMC TDH 5106 bus owned by Philadelphia  
Transportation Company.   The 40 foot behmoth carried the mourners.

(By the way ... thinking of arson and buses ... after the two  
arsonists were arrested in Coatesville a week or two ago, another  
case happened.   Seven school buses were torched.)

On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell wrote:

> Did PRC have any funeral cars?  Assume not; seems to be  'more'  of a
> Western-US phenomenon doesn't it.
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