School bus

A school bus is a bus used to transport children and adolescents to and from school. The first school bus was horse-drawn; introduced in 1827 by George Shillibeer for a Quaker school in Stoke Newington, London, and designed to carry twenty-five children. Since then they have become widespread, and motorised, in all parts of the world.

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Bus - Children - Adolescents - School - George Shillibeer - Stoke Newington - London

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Some countries have specially built, painted and equipped school buses. In Canada and the United States they are commonly painted an orangey-yellow color (officially known as "National School Bus Glossy Yellow") for purposes of visibility and safety and equipped with specialized traffic warning devices. Most used in recent years have been diesel-powered. Full-size school buses can seat forty-five to seventy passengers or even more, but in many districts smaller vehicles are used as well. Some U.S. school districts purchase the buses and hire their own drivers, while others engage the service of school bus contractors such as Laidlaw to perform this function. School buses in the UK in almost all cases are contracted out to local bus companies. Elsewhere in Europe school buses are hardly known.

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Canada - United States - Orangey - Yellow - National School Bus Glossy Yellow - Diesel - School district - School bus contractor - Laidlaw - UK - Europe

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