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Hoschek (NJ) Jeff Miller (NJ) Murray Kramer (NJ) Donald Coffin (NJ) Paul Semendinger (NJ) Founded in 1948 as the National Motor Bus Association, the Motor Bus Society Motor Bus Society, Inc. is a New Jersey Corporation has had as its main purpose the collec­ tion and publication of information a­ Conventions Stephen M. Goldmann bout the history and progress of the Legal Matters Jonathon Goodman, Esq. bus business in the United States and Vintage Coach News Murray S. Kramer Canada. Its membership includes repre­ Publication Sales Donald L. Weiss sentation of many phases of the indus­ try as well as students and members of Secretary Fred McGullam the general public with an interest in Treasurer Donald M. Coffin bus transportation. FRONT COVER The story of Salt Lake City transit is continued in this issue; Part II on Salt Lake City Lines. Versare 306 in SLCL orange The Society is a not-for-profit organi­ & cream passes the Hotel Utah in this 1944 scene. The SLCL's emblem zation with unpaid volunteer officers. is faintly visible in the lower pane l ahead of the exit. Page 2 Mo tor Coach Age SALT LAKE C ITV PART II Sa It Lake City Lines The January issue of Motor Coach Age presented the history of the Utah Light & Traction Co . This issue continues the history of transit in Salt Lake City , but first , some ad­ ditions and corrections to Part I: On page 8 of the January issue , the map legend should be corrected -- the labels for gas bus vs. electric coach were inadvertently interchanged . Next , the reference on page 9 to the conversion date of the Versare electric coaches to single- axle confi gurati on is incorrect. As shown in the table on page 13, the first coach was taken out of service in 1929 and the last re­ turned to service in 1931; most of the coaches were modi­ fied during 1930. Axles were changed on each coach sever­ al times while attempting to solve the problem of break­ age . However , the conversion to single rear axle was ac­ complished during the dates shown in the table on page 13. assets (along with responsibility for remaining UL&T We are fortunate to have found a photograph of the Twin liabilities) and then UL&T ceased to exist. Thus UL&T Coach demonstrator showing the Fageol brothers ' original sold only its transit operations to PCL. Both UL&T and design (~). fNf.t- 't UP&L were owned, through a subsidiary, by Electric Bond & Share Co. On page 11 , we somehow reversed the conversion dates of the Wasatch Springs and West Temple lines . Wasatch At the time that Pacific City Lines purchased the transit Springs was changed over on November 23 , 1930 , and West operations of UL&T, it was an Oakland-based holding com­ Temple on December 6 , 1931. Woolley referred to the Wa ­ pany which controlled 12 properties in 3 western states -­ satch Springs line as Warm Springs line . Montana, Washington and Califonria . PCL's wartime earn­ ings allowed the purchase of the Salt Lake property just More information has come to hand on conversion of the a few months after acquisition of the utility-owned tran­ Sandy line (page 19) . Since this was a heavily used route sit system in Sacramento, the capital of another western the change created the requirement for a large bus pur­ state, California. National City Lines had held a sub­ chase . West announced that the company had approved the stantial interest in PCL but had relinquished control dur­ purchase of 18 new Utility Coach buses. In fact , the first ing a major refinancing in 1940. Management and operating four had already successfully replaced street car service methods were, however, little changed, and except for on Route 15--South 8th West and 16--Poplar Grove during equipment numbering practices, there were few external July. The additional 14 were for conversion of Route 12 differences between PCL and NCL properties. and this was carried out in January of 1934. When ownership changed , Dale W. Barratt became assistant --**-- general manager of Salt Lake City Lines. Barratt had Pacific City Lines purchased the transit operations of started with UL&T in 1934 as a streetcar operator, soon UL&T . The UL&T retained ownership of power facilities advancing to dispatcher and supervisor . In 1936, he was which had been l eased to Utah Power & Light in 1915. On put in charge of traffic and scheduling and later became December 31, 1944, UP&L assumed ownership of these UL&T superintendent of transportation. Dale Barratt's fortunes Above , The Fageols sent demonstrator 399 to Salt Lake City in an attempt to gain an elec­ tric coach order from UL&T . They succeeded , but not until they had moved the rear door ahead of the rear axle and added dynamic braking. Compare with the photo of 402 on p. 9 of Part I . --Utah Power & Light Co. Left , Salt Lake City Lines repainted its electric coaches into PCL/NCL orange and cream divided by a thin black stripe. The colors were the same as the buses , but the design was much less intricate. Cincinnati 315 wa its to go into service on the 7 line in 1944. Faintly visible is the SLCL logo midway along the lower panel . --Railway Neg . Ex. March , 1987 Page 3 Left, Work car 013 , rebuilt by UL&T from the singular Model 21 Twin Coach , continued to ply the rails until abandonment of trolley service in the City LiIEs era . Compare this with the photo of bus 50 in Part I. This car is painted in the early SLCL scheme of orange and cream with thin black stripe , just like Cincinnati No. 315 on the previous page. --Warren Miller collection Below, UL&T equipment operated well into the City Lines erc1as shown by 137, a 1938 Yellow Coach model 733 , snapped at the garage in March , 1948. Note the electric left hand turn signal and special route number boards, features added by City Lines. This bus is in the "new" PCL/NCL paint scheme of orange, green and white, adopted about this time. --Bill Shipler , from R . A. Burrowes would remain intertwined with those of Salt Lake City remaining streetcars were retired. Route 5 buses returned Lines until it would cease to exist some 36 years after to the downtown area. he piloted his first streetcar. Airway Motor Coach Lines was purchased and merged into SLCL Given the wartime conditions and the strains on public on March 1, 1946, once again unifying urban transit in Salt transit, there was little that Salt Lake City Lines Lake City. The transaction included 23 buses, operating could do immediately to improve services. There were rights and other assets; the purchase price was $125,000. things, however, that could be done to impress on the April brought 30 new model TD-3609 buses, presumably to re­ public that a new management had taken over and had place the Airway equipment as well as some of the oldest good intentions. UL&T buses. General manager Glen Stanley stated to the newspapers During the spring of 1946, National City Lines once again that a new logo and a new paint job of orange and white obtained voting control of its former affilliate, PCL, and with black trim would be applied to all buses as soon as equipment soon began to appear in the familair yellow, possible. New concrete benches painted orange were pro­ green and white colors which were to characterize NCL and cured and placed at bus stops, and new buses began to PCL buses for many years to come. arrive in the form of one TG-4006 and 14 TG-4007, deliv­ ered between September and December 1944. The arrival of a second group of 30 model 3609 buses in July allowed the abandonment of trolley coach service. On Adjustments in routes and schedules from the 1943 pattern September 21, 1946, poles were pulled for the last time on were made. Some had been instituted by UL&T, while others what had been the first large-scale use of the trolley bus were SLCL changes.