Bus Lines Transportation Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a Wonderful 1890's Frank Parmalee Company Omnibus Line Baggage Tag Holder from Chicago. History of Frank Parmalee Company Omnibus Line: In the Spring of 1853, The lure of the big city drew Franklin Parmelee, and he took up...

ARTIFACT: This is a Great Old circa 1900 Team Driver's Hat Badge of the Golden West Transfer Company Found in California. VINTAGE: Circa 1900. SIZE: Approximately 1-5/8" in height x 4-5/16" in width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel-plated brass with...

ARTIFACT: This is a Very Early 1910's - early 1920's Chicago & South Bend Bus Co. Driver Hat Badge. From the early days of when buses started to Replace Street Railways. Wonderful Lizard Maker Mark of  A.W. Martin & Co. Chicago...

ARTIFACT: 1950's Suburban Bus Lines driver hat badge. This Chicago area badge reads: "SUBURBAN BUS LINES" and shows the number "1" at the very base of the badge. The top of the badge features the enameled image of a bus in light blue and white detail...

ARTIFACT: 1940's Leavenworth Transportation Co. Bus Drivers hat badge. The center of the badge shows a painted red cross and reads: "BUS" vertically and horizontally inside the cross, surrounding it reads: "LEAVENWORTH TRANSPORTATION CO." with a nice...

ARTIFACT: Circa 1920s Lovell Bus Lines Inc. operator's badge. Originally called the Woburn Bus Lines, John Lovell arrived in Maynard in 1923 with a bus running to South Acton. Soon after, the company had established permanent bus routes from Concord to...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930s Yellow Cab Co. of Virginia driver's badge in excellent condition and numbered 1386. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s. SIZE: About 1-3/4" wide by 2-1/4" high. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Chrome with yellow and black enamel...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare 1930s operator badge for B&M (Boston and Maine) Transportation Company, a railroad-owned bus lines operating from 1924 until 195The badge is by S. M. Spencer Manufacturing Company of Boston, Massachusetts and is numbered 207...