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03-04-2021, 11:03 AM
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MH Bus
This keeps popping up on the local Craigslist. Interesting with the MH front wheel drive. Would be really cool if it was restored but looks like a ton of work. Not mine nor do I know anything about it other than what's listed. Lots more photos in the original posting.
https://inlandempire.craigslist.org/...285634633.html1941 Ford Marmon Herrington - $5,500 Rare 1941 Ford Marmon /Herrington front wheel drive bus ,flat head engine , approx 25 feet long , 68 wide , 8 high, aero dynamic body the grill is in the shape of a bell , (ma bell telephone co ) this bus was used in the field for service men and women to make calls home . There were suppose to be 2 buses that were in use and word is its the only one in existence. Bus has a lot of rust ..mileage is unknown
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03-04-2021, 11:10 AM
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Re: MH Bus
Ultra coolness!!! It would be total bear to transport it!!!
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03-04-2021, 12:42 PM
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Re: MH Bus
Now that is cool! Deserves to be preserved.
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03-04-2021, 02:51 PM
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Re: MH Bus
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The only thing nice about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.... "Silver rings, your butt! Them's washers!" "We shot our way out of that town for a dollar's worth of steel holes!" - from 'The Wild Bunch' - 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NReUd2_0u0 Last edited by petehoovie; 03-04-2021 at 03:34 PM. |
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03-05-2021, 08:56 AM
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Re: MH Bus
That would make a cool camper.
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03-05-2021, 09:06 PM
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Re: MH Bus
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Yup, here it was way back in 2018 https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showt...=telephone+bus
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03-06-2021, 12:05 AM
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Re: MH Bus
I want to live in it......
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03-06-2021, 02:42 AM
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Re: MH Bus
Cool - Rare 1941 Ford Marmon-Herrington front wheel drive bus. |
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03-06-2021, 10:10 AM
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Re: MH Bus
Looks like an important part of history. That bus must have been quite a morale booster.
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03-06-2021, 02:32 PM
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Re: MH Bus
Nobody has mentioned that sweet Greenbrier sitting next to it. Some people hold those in high regard now.
I agree that the subject MH bus would make a great RV project. |
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03-06-2021, 06:44 PM
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Re: MH Bus
I thought this bus sold on ebay a couple years ago. sale must have not gone thru
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