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Mid Bus Corporation
Predecessor	Superior Coach Company
Founded	1981
Defunct	2008
Fate	Dissolved by parent company
Headquarters	Lima, Ohio (1981–1995) Bluffton, Ohio (1995–2007)
Area served	North America
Products	school buses
Parent	Collins Bus Corporation
Website	http://www.midbus.com

Mid Bus was a corporation which specialized in manufacturing customized school buses. Formed in 1981 by former employees of Superior Coach Company in Lima, Ohio, it grew from a dozen employees working in a small facility in Lima to become one of the country's largest manufacturers of smaller school buses, moving to a much larger facility a few miles north of Lima in 1995.

The company was acquired by Collins Bus Corporation in 1998. On September 19, 2007, Collins announced plans to close the Mid Bus plant in Ohio and consolidate all manufacturing at the Collins facility in Kansas.^[1]

History

In 1980, in the US, there were six major school bus body companies building large school buses, mostly making bodies for chassis from four truck manufacturers, joined by two coach-type school bus builders on the West Coast. Most also made some smaller buses of various types. With the baby boom years which swelled the ranks of school children in the past, the manufacturing industry faced serious over-capacity as companies vied and competed for lower volumes of purchases.

In 1981, when Sheller-Globe Corporation, a diversified industrial conglomerate closed down its large Superior Coach Company bus factory in Lima, Ohio, two former Superior managers, Lynn Metzger and Gary Geren along with a former Superior and Carpenter manager, Fred Barrington created Mid Bus, manufacturing Superior's smallest Type A bus under the new "Superior by Mid Bus" brand name.

Initially, they had a seven other former employees of the large factory, and worked in a small shop on Wayne Street in Lima, OH. As other small bus products were added, Superior by Mid Bus was shortened to Mid Bus. In the mid-1980s, the company acquired the Minuteman product line from AmTran (formerly Ward Body Company) and in the early 1990s, the tooling and product rights to Busette from Wayne Corporation. They also developed products of their own design to expand the product offering.

After a succession of larger facilities in Lima, around 1995, the company moved to a much larger facility in Bluffton, Ohio. Mid Bus became a subsidiary of Collins Industries, a publicly traded stock company, in 1998. On September 19, 2007, Collins announced plans to close the Mid Bus plant in Ohio and consolidate all manufacturing at the Collins facility in Kansas.^[1]

Products

Guide SRW - Ford E350 or GMC 3500/Chevy 3500 chassis
Guide DRW - Ford E350 or GMC 3500/Chevy 3500 chassis
Guide XL - GMC 4500/5500 chassis
MFSAB - Ford E350 or GMC 3500/Chevy 3500 chassis
Guide AL - international 3400 chassis

External links

Mid Bus homepage

References

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School bus manufacturers, North America

Active manufacturers

Full-size and small buses	Blue Bird Corporation (small buses made by Girardin Minibus) GreenPower Motor Company IC Bus Lion Electric Company Thomas Built Buses, Inc
Small buses only	Collins Industries Girardin Minibus (renamed Micro Bird by Girardin) Starcraft Bus Trans Tech

Defunct manufacturers
(including date of closure
or last school bus manufacture)

2010s	Corbeil Bus Corporation (2016)
2000s	Carpenter Industries, Inc (2001) American Transportation Corporation (AmTran) (2002; became IC Bus) Les Enterprises Michel Corbeil (2008; acquired by Collins) Liberty Bus (2005) Mid Bus (2008) U.S. Bus Corporation (2007; became Trans Tech)
1990s	Coach and Equipment Manufacturing (1999; still in business) Crown Coach Corporation (1991) Gillig (1993; still in business) Mid Bus (1998; acquired by Collins) TAM-USA (1991) Wayne Corporation (1992; became Wayne Wheeled Vehicles) Wayne Wheeled Vehicles (1995)
1980s	Ward Body Works (1980; became AmTran) New Bus Company (1989) Superior Coach Company (1985)
1970s	Northern Coach Perley A. Thomas Car Works (1972; became Thomas Built Buses)
1960s	Hackney Brothers Body Company (1966)
1950s	Kenworth-Pacific (1957; still in business)

List of school bus manufacturers

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