Nova Bus
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| Industry | Transit |
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Motor Coach Industries (transit) Transportation Manufacturing Corporation |
| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada |
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Key people
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Raymond Leduc (President) |
| Products | Public Transit buses |
| Owner | Volvo |
| Parent | Volvo Buses |
| Website | www |
Nova Bus is a Canadian bus manufacturer in North America, owned by Volvo Buses, and headquartered in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada.
Nova Bus's Saint-Eustache factory was built as a General Motors plant for building city transit buses for the Canadian market. In 1987 GM sold its bus-building holdings to Motor Coach Industries (MCI), which had been formed from companies that had been owned by Greyhound Lines. The plant was used to produce the Classic model for sales in Canada, while GMC's Rapid Transit Series (RTS) product was moved to join MCI's own designs at Transportation Manufacturing Corporation in Roswell, New Mexico. MCI divested its urban rapid transit models in 1993, and Nova Bus was created to continue producing the Classic and RTS models at the Saint-Eustache and Roswell plants respectively.
The Classic and RTS were later discontinued in order to concentrate on the Nova LFS, a low floor city bus, which was introduced in 1995. The last Classic model was produced in 1997. Sales of Nova LFS were insufficient and Nova Bus closed its Roswell and Niskayuna, New York plants in 2002 to concentrate all efforts on the Canadian market. The Roswell plant was later acquired by a local consortium, Millennium Transit Services, that almost went bankrupt in 2008, then emerged from bankruptcy in 2011. The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), with 480 LFS units in its active bus fleet, remains one of the larger operators of Nova Buses.
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