Everything about Mid Bus totally explained
Mid Bus specialized in manufacturing customized
school bus in
Bluffton, Ohio. Formed in
1981 by former employees of
Superior Coach Company in
Lima, Ohio, it grew from a dozen employees to become one of the country's largest manufacturers of smaller school buses.
The company was acquired by
Collins Bus Corporation in
1998. On
September 19,
2007, Collins announced plans to close the Mid Bus plant in Ohio and consolidate all manufacturing at the Collins facility in Kansas.
History
In
1980, in the U.S., there were six major
school bus body companies building large school buses, mostly making bodies for chassis from four truck manufacturers, joined by two coach-type school bus builders on the West Coast. Most also made some smaller buses of various types. With the
baby boom years which swelled the ranks of school children in the past, the manufacturing industry faced serious over-capacity as companies vied and competed for lower volumes of purchases.
In
1981, when
Sheller-Globe Corporation, a diversified industrial conglomerate closed down its large
Superior Coach Company bus factory in
Lima, Ohio, three former managers created Mid Bus, manufacturing Superior's smallest Type A bus under the new "Superior by Mid Bus" brand name.
Initially, they'd a dozen other former
employees of the large factory, and worked in a small shop. As other small bus products were added, Superior by Mid Bus was shortened to Mid Bus. In the late 1980s, the company acquired the Minuteman product line from
AmTran (formerly
Ward Body Company) and in the early 1990s, the tooling and product rights to
Busette from
Wayne Corporation.
After a succession of larger facilities in Lima, around
1995, the company moved to a much larger facility in
Bluffton, Ohio. Mid Bus became a subsidiary of
Collins Industries, a publicly-traded stock company, in
1998. On
September 19,
2007, Collins announced plans to close the Mid Bus plant in Ohio and consolidate all manufacturing at the Collins facility in Kansas.
Products
- Guide SW - Ford E350 or GMC 3500/checy 2500 chassis
- Guide DW - Ford E350 or GMC 3500/checy 2500 chassis
- Guide XL - GMC Truck chassis
- Multi Function SAB - Ford E350 or GMC 3500/checy 2500 chassis
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