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Blue Bird de Mexico, SA de CV Monterrey

Blue Bird de Mexico, SA de CV

Blue Bird de Mexico, SA de CV ( BBM) was an American home assembly company specializing in buses for city and school. The production was mainly oriented to export.

On September 14, 1995, the tour made by President Nuevo León Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León inaugurated the assembly plant, located in Apodaca, located northeast of Monterrey metropolitan area.

The company initially employed 29 workers. The general direction of the company's corporate office was Paul E. Glaske, and general management of the plant in Nuevo Leon, under Anthony Sellier.

The first 20 buses assembled in Apodaca came to Haiti in October of that year. Anthony Sellier, said at the time, that the Corporation would sell this year about 15 000 buses in 50 countries, representing about 500 million dollars.

The story of Blue Bird ( BB) Albert Luce starts when built in 1927, Blue Bird # 1, one of the first school buses steel used in construction and established a new paradigm in the school transportation industry .

In 1935 he was commissioned in Fort Valley Georgia under the name of Blue Bird Body Company's first plant dedicated to the bus. The plant was destroyed by fire in 1945. In 1946 a new plant started operations as well as corporate.

Blue Bird became an international manufacturer of school buses with the start-up of Blue Bird Bantford Canada in Ontario in 1958. In 1965 the company its first plant in Latin America, in Guatemala, which ceased operations in 1982.

Blue Bird Corporation (BB) had five modern factories in the United States and Canada when it was put into operation in Apodaca. The production of the Corporation was in buses for urban, suburban, school, commercial and recreational vehicles, one of the leaders in these markets. Thanks to the facility in Apodaca, Nuevo León, BB could enter the market.

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The plant had an area of \u200b\u200b11 thousand square meters. The production capacity of this plant was up to three thousand units per year to settle in national manufacturing platform.

buses for school use are classified as Type A with a maximum capacity of 30 aciento, Type C also called convensional up to 48 seats and type D up to 90 seats. The plant in Apodaca was convensional type buses.

The following photos are a bus Blue Bird TC 2002 for urban use in service in the city of Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico.

Photos taken from http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.mx/MLM-28335568-venta-de-autobus-blue-bird-2002-_JM

The following is a Blue Bird FE 5200 A for school use, model 1999, 46 seats, 11.5m long, Cummins Engine, online, power 177Hp (130kW), diesel, turbo, interkuller, injector , volume - 5900cm3, number of cylinders - 6 euro - 2., Gearbox Allison MT 643, automatic, 4x2 axles, air suspension, power steering, air conditioning, seats, braking system: ABS.

In year 2001, Blue Bird closed its plant in Apodaca. Currently 5 plants of BB located in the United States remains only operating the Forth Valley Georgia rebuilt in 1946. The Canadian operations closed in 2007.

BB in October 2009 entered into partnership with the Canadian manufacturer of school buses Girardin Minibus. That company is called Micro Bird, Inc. But that is another story.

Sources: Blue Bird Corporation

article published online in http://www.reference.com/browse/Blue_Bird_Corporation .

EZ Plant Opens Blue Bird. Article published by the newspaper El Porvenir on September 15, 1995. Blue Bird

comes to Mexico. Report in the newspaper El Norte on October 6, 1995.

Dejan Apodaca eight companies, affecting 3 000. Article published by the newspaper El Norte on 17 June 2002.

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José Ramírez Lozano Monterrey, NL Mexico