I took this photo one lovely Springtime morning, back in May of 2009. Seen her in the parking lot of a large local strip mall at Arlington Heights and Biesterfield Roads in suburban Elk Grove Village Illinois, is a Thomas school bus from the local carrier Jones Bus Company.
Thomas wasn't always a company that manufactured school bus bodies, their roots go back to at least the early 1900's. The original name of the company, was the Pearly A. Thomas Car Company. This company manufactured standard electric city streetcars or "Trolleys" as some people called them. Many original 1920's era Pearly A. Thomas electric streetcars, are still in service today in the city of New Orleans Louisianna.
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