Greyhound USA Gas Turbine coach visiting England - April 1978

Monday 17 April 1978 – This Greyhound MC8 Americruiser was shipped over to England from the USA and was exhibited at the annual International Gas Turbine Conference at the Wembley Conference Centre between April 9 and 13 1978. After the conference ended it visited selected locations on promotional work to the travel trade but did not venture much further north than Birmingham. Taking a very keen interest in the coaches of the USA and Canada I travelled from Rochdale to Birmingham just to see it and took these snapshots at what I seem to recall may have been in Park Street (a Wallace Arnold Tours yard?). All in all I wasn’t particularly bowled over with the quality of the seating and interior – making direct comparisons with British interiors and the far superior Chapman reclining seats fitted to the coaches of the likes of Yelloway. A Washington D.C. based Greyhound driver had come over with the coach and drove it to the different venues – a little further afield than one of his regular runs between Washington D.C. and Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Monday 17 April 1978 – This Greyhound MC8 Americruiser was shipped over to England from the USA and was exhibited at the annual International Gas Turbine Conference at the Wembley Conference Centre between April 9 and 13 1978. After the conference ended it visited selected locations on promotional work to the travel trade but did not venture much further north than Birmingham. Taking a very keen interest in the coaches of the USA and Canada I travelled from Rochdale to Birmingham just to see it and took these snapshots at what I seem to recall may have been in Park Street (a Wallace Arnold Tours yard?). All in all I wasn’t particularly bowled over with the quality of the seating and interior – making direct comparisons with British interiors and the far superior Chapman reclining seats fitted to the coaches of the likes of Yelloway. A Washington D.C. based Greyhound driver had come over with the coach and drove it to the different venues – a little further afield than one of his regular runs between Washington D.C. and Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Monday 17 April 1978 – This Greyhound MC8 Americruiser was shipped over to England from the USA and was exhibited at the annual International Gas Turbine Conference at the Wembley Conference Centre between April 9 and 13 1978. After the conference ended it visited selected locations on promotional work to the travel trade but did not venture much further north than Birmingham. Taking a very keen interest in the coaches of the USA and Canada I travelled from Rochdale to Birmingham just to see it and took these snapshots at what I seem to recall may have been in Park Street (a Wallace Arnold Tours yard?). All in all I wasn’t particularly bowled over with the quality of the seating and interior – making direct comparisons with British interiors and the far superior Chapman reclining seats fitted to the coaches of the likes of Yelloway. A Washington D.C. based Greyhound driver had come over with the coach and drove it to the different venues – a little further afield than one of his regular runs between Washington D.C. and Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Monday 17 April 1978 – This Greyhound MC8 Americruiser was shipped over to England from the USA and was exhibited at the annual International Gas Turbine Conference at the Wembley Conference Centre between April 9 and 13 1978. After the conference ended it visited selected locations on promotional work to the travel trade but did not venture much further north than Birmingham. Taking a very keen interest in the coaches of the USA and Canada I travelled from Rochdale to Birmingham just to see it and took these snapshots at what I seem to recall may have been in Park Street (a Wallace Arnold Tours yard?). All in all I wasn’t particularly bowled over with the quality of the seating and interior – making direct comparisons with British interiors and the far superior Chapman reclining seats fitted to the coaches of the likes of Yelloway. A Washington D.C. based Greyhound driver had come over with the coach and drove it to the different venues – a little further afield than one of his regular runs between Washington D.C. and Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Monday 17 April 1978 – This Greyhound MC8 Americruiser was shipped over to England from the USA and was exhibited at the annual International Gas Turbine Conference at the Wembley Conference Centre between April 9 and 13 1978. After the conference ended it visited selected locations on promotional work to the travel trade but did not venture much further north than Birmingham. Taking a very keen interest in the coaches of the USA and Canada I travelled from Rochdale to Birmingham just to see it and took these snapshots at what I seem to recall may have been in Park Street (a Wallace Arnold Tours yard?). All in all I wasn’t particularly bowled over with the quality of the seating and interior – making direct comparisons with British interiors and the far superior Chapman reclining seats fitted to the coaches of the likes of Yelloway. A Washington D.C. based Greyhound driver had come over with the coach and drove it to the different venues – a little further afield than one of his regular runs between Washington D.C. and Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Monday 17 April 1978 – This Greyhound MC8 Americruiser was shipped over to England from the USA and was exhibited at the annual International Gas Turbine Conference at the Wembley Conference Centre between April 9 and 13 1978. After the conference ended it visited selected locations on promotional work to the travel trade but did not venture much further north than Birmingham. Taking a very keen interest in the coaches of the USA and Canada I travelled from Rochdale to Birmingham just to see it and took these snapshots at what I seem to recall may have been in Park Street (a Wallace Arnold Tours yard?). All in all I wasn’t particularly bowled over with the quality of the seating and interior – making direct comparisons with British interiors and the far superior Chapman reclining seats fitted to the coaches of the likes of Yelloway. A Washington D.C. based Greyhound driver had come over with the coach and drove it to the different venues – a little further afield than one of his regular runs between Washington D.C. and Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Monday 17 April 1978 – This Greyhound MC8 Americruiser was shipped over to England from the USA and was exhibited at the annual International Gas Turbine Conference at the Wembley Conference Centre between April 9 and 13 1978. After the conference ended it visited selected locations on promotional work to the travel trade but did not venture much further north than Birmingham. Taking a very keen interest in the coaches of the USA and Canada I travelled from Rochdale to Birmingham just to see it and took these snapshots at what I seem to recall may have been in Park Street (a Wallace Arnold Tours yard?). All in all I wasn’t particularly bowled over with the quality of the seating and interior – making direct comparisons with British interiors and the far superior Chapman reclining seats fitted to the coaches of the likes of Yelloway. A Washington D.C. based Greyhound driver had come over with the coach and drove it to the different venues – a little further afield than one of his regular runs between Washington D.C. and Scranton, Pennsylvania. He very kindly took a couple of shots of me with the coach.

Monday 17 April 1978 – This Greyhound MC8 Americruiser was shipped over to England from the USA and was exhibited at the annual International Gas Turbine Conference at the Wembley Conference Centre between April 9 and 13 1978. After the conference ended it visited selected locations on promotional work to the travel trade but did not venture much further north than Birmingham. Taking a very keen interest in the coaches of the USA and Canada I travelled from Rochdale to Birmingham just to see it and took these snapshots at what I seem to recall may have been in Park Street (a Wallace Arnold Tours yard?). All in all I wasn’t particularly bowled over with the quality of the seating and interior – making direct comparisons with British interiors and the far superior Chapman reclining seats fitted to the coaches of the likes of Yelloway. A Washington D.C. based Greyhound driver had come over with the coach and drove it to the different venues – a little further afield than one of his regular runs between Washington D.C. and Scranton, Pennsylvania. He very kindly took a couple of shots of me with the coach.

This leaflet was produced by Greyhound Lines to explain the features of the gas turbine coaches that were conducted by the United States Department of Energy and Greyhound in the late 1970s.

This leaflet was produced by Greyhound Lines to explain the features of the gas turbine coaches that were conducted by the United States Department of Energy and Greyhound in the late 1970s.

This leaflet was produced by Greyhound Lines to explain the features of the gas turbine coaches that were conducted by the United States Department of Energy and Greyhound in the late 1970s.