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In 1988, nearly a decade after Sheller-Globe exited the school bus manufacturing business, a Superior bus was involved in a disastrous crash. The bus had been built only nine days before the more stringent 1977 Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards would have required better collision protection of
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Faced with these challenges, school bus industry overcapacity, the loss of ambulance business in the professional car sector, and decreased sales of funeral coaches due to higher production and sales costs, Sheller-Globe liquidated its Superior Coach-related investments in late 1980, and portions of
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The 1977 model year saw a major downsizing in the Cadillac automobile chassis used for the professional car business. In addition to being smaller, Cadillac's commercial chassis was significantly more expensive. Superior and other ambulance and funeral car manufacturers had to design new bodies and
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business was sold to Tom Earnhart. Later that year, it was merged with the largest competitor, the S&S Coach Company. This formed a new company, S&S/Superior of Ohio, to oversee the further development of the two businesses. Manufacturing operations were consolidated at Superior's plant in
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As of 2007, S&S/Superior now operates as a division of Accubuilt, using the Superior Coach trade name for its line of funeral cars and specialty vehicles. Accubuilt's 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m) flagship facility was also the exclusive production plant for the W.P. Chrysler Executive
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After Sheller-Globe announced the closure of its Lima bus and professional car manufacturing operations in 1980, several small businesses purchased portions of the assets, and carried on successfully with several product lines.
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for school buses built after 1 April, which increased both costs and engineering challenges. At the same time, a downturn in North American school bus purchase volumes began as the children of the
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whose buses were primarily sold on the West Coast. Bidding competition for reduced volumes became devastating to profits and even liquidity; in 1979, Ward declared bankruptcy, reorganizing as
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and opened a new plant housing a large manufacturing facility and administrative offices. The company diversified, introducing a line of hearse and ambulance bodies (known as
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After its 1980 closure, the Superior name would live on through several other companies. The manufacturing of school buses would play a part of the formation of
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In 1938, having achieved success and having established a dealer network of its own, Superior left the partnership with Studebaker and began building bodies on
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the fuel tank, a wider central aisle for better access to the emergency door, and other safety improvements. Although no legal determination of
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each contributed substantially to the settlement funds for those injured and the families of those who were killed. As of 2010, the
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By 1980, Superior was one of the six major school bus body manufacturing companies in the United States, competing with
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retool their factories, resulting in much higher consumer costs. The ambulance sector switched to larger
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Reckless Disregard: Corporate Greed, Government Indifference, and the Kentucky School Bus Crash
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Although large school bus manufacturing was discontinued with the 1980 model year,
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The accident and the legal battle afterward were recounted in a 1994 book by
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truck chassis. In 1951 the Lima facility was expanded and a new facility in
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For its professional-car platforms, Superior signed an agreement with
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By June 1912, the company was awarded a lucrative contract with the
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generation completed their elementary and secondary educations.
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remained one of the two worst bus accidents in U.S. history.
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Accubuilt, Inc. (professional cars subsidiary, 2000−present)
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Accubuilt's Limousine Division also operates a facility in
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bodies for the U.S. and Canada, as well as export markets.
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with wheelbase extensions up to 130 inches (330 cm).
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for the Superior Coach Company's employees, now known as
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During the early 1920s, Garford moved its operations to
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Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1909
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Index

Garford Motor Truck Co.
Superior (bus manufacturer)

Body manufacturer
Elyria, Ohio
Mid Bus
Lima, Ohio
United States
Professional cars
School buses
Sheller-Globe Corporation
http://www.superiorcoaches.com/
coachbuilder
American automotive industry
professional cars
hearses
school buses
Lima, Ohio
Mid Bus
Elyria, Ohio
Cleveland
United States Post Office
1912 Garford Motor Truck logo
1912 Garford COE truck
1916 Garford 5-ton truck
Russian Garford-Putilov armored car used in WWI (derived from Garford truck)
armored car
1924 Garford fire truck
Lima, Ohio
professional cars

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