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Aerocoach (full name General American Aerocoach Corporation) was a bus and coach manufacturer based in
Aerocoach (full name General American Aerocoach Corporation) was a bus and coach manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois
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, in the United States
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and was popular in the 1940s. The company existed between 1939 and 1952 when it went out of business. Its first manager was Harry Alphonse Fitzjohn, co-founder of the FitzJohn
FitzJohn was a bus manufacturer in Muskegon, Michigan. The company was founded October 8, 1919, by Harry Alphonse FitzJohn, and built over 5,000 bus bodies, complete buses, stretchout sedans and passenger-carrying trailers before closing down in M ...
-Erwin Manufacturing Company.
Demise and Fate of East Chicago Plant
The East Chicago plant was acquired by Steel Car Company, a subsidiary of the General American Transportation Corporation, then by Graver Tank and Manufacturing Company and finally byUnion Tank Car Company
Union Tank Car Company or UTLX is a railway equipment leasing, rail car maintenance, and rail car manufacturing company headquartered in metro Chicago, Illinois. A direct descendant of Standard Oil, the firm today is owned by Berkshire Hathaway.
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in 1969 to manufacture railway tank car
A tank car ( International Union of Railways (UIC): tank wagon) is a type of railroad car (UIC: railway car) or rolling stock designed to transport liquid and gaseous commodities.
History
Timeline
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s until it closed in 2008.
Products
* P45-37 * P46-37 * P46-137 * P-373 - 37 passenger intercity coach * P-372 - intercity coachSee also
* FitzJohn Coach CompanyReferences
Defunct bus manufacturers of the United States Companies that have filed for bankruptcy in the United States Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1939 Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1952 1939 establishments in Illinois 1952 disestablishments in Indiana {{US-bus-transport-stub