[PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach

[Dwight Long]

Bob

Ah, yes, the Brentwood Motor Coach Co.  After the fatal accident at 
Kaufmann's, a wag at the Museum started referring to it as the
Brentwood Murder Lurch Co.  They were notorious for using Fitzjohn products. 
Was the one in the photo a Fitzjohn?  For one year I rented half of a duplex 
on Greenlee Road in Brentwood.  The BMC stopped half a block from my house. 
I rode it once or twice.  Normally I drove to Frederick Street and took the 
37 to the Triangle.

Another thing about BMC:  Their pollution controls were non-existent.  It 
was a true curse to get behind one in the Liberty Tubes!  We called them 
Pittsburgh's only coal burning buses.

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
To: "Pittsburgh Trolley List" <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:09 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Brentwood Motor Coach


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> I think I've taken exactly two photos of buses over the years.Â
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> Last Fall I inherited my uncle's (who worked for We st Penn) slides and 
> 8mm color movies that he took from 1946-1978. I've just started to look 
> through the  two large shipping cases, and y esterday I discovered a 
> slide of a Brentwood Motor Coach that my uncle took from his porch on 
> Maytide St. Â in March, 1954 . My aunt and cousin are seen boarding the 
> bus. See attached file.
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> Now I have 5,000 slides and thousands of feet of movies to look through. 
> The cases included his Bell & Howell movie projector, and o n the first 
> movie ree l I viewed I saw a clip of myself taken  in 1948. Â
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> http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/BrentwoodBusMaytideSt0354.JPG
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