Happy New Year to everyone, members and non-members. 2024 will be an exciting year for the Transit Museum Society. We will be starting our new “Mobile Museum” project aboard our 1982 GM “Fishbowl” 4107.
Jason Sharpe applied our URL to 9753. You’ll notice that it’s in the same font and style as the old URL “www.bctransit.com.” All logos were taken off the coach before it was donated.
This week we’ve published our newsletter, The Transfer. You may know BC Electric as the predecessor of BC Transit/Metro Transit/BC Hydro Transit, but did youy know the in addition to operating buses and streetcars, the BCE also owned the Yellow Taxi franchise in Vancouver? We also explore the political life of Effie Jones. After WW2 she became “the number one foe” of the BC Electric, campaigning to have the private company taken over by government.
Angus shows us two photographs of our other “Fishbowl”, 4612: It was restored by BC Transit, but in the wrong livery! And we garner some more information about the oldest bus in BC. No, not our 1937 Hayes. Our President, Bryan Larrabee celebrates his 30th edition of “Shop Rags”, his review of the happenings at our facility in Langley, (but it started with Roseberry.)
Onward!