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Posted by W.B. on Tue Jan 10 12:46:05 2023, in response to Re: [PHOTOS] NYC Buses - Back In Time, posted by Bill Newkirk on Tue Jan 10 06:51:10 2023. Based on the spacing of the TA script on top, this was a repaint, ergo the '81' numerals on at the point that photo was taken replaced the gold leaf numerals (which dated back to Brooklyn Bus and B&QT days, even so far as their numbers displayed on the exteriors of Peter Witt streetcars, and whose use continued up to the point the 'M' logo was replaced in 1993-94 with the angled 'MTA' logo used for New York City Transit/New York City Bus/Bus to the present day) originally on it.What you call "painted on" numbers, as I said, would have been, pre-1962, exclusively on FACO, NYCO and Surface Transit divisions' bus fleet. (ST, especially, since Fifth Avenue Coach Lines acquired it back in December 1956.) They too were decals, and up to the 1940's were also gold leaf. |
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