Photograph of a 1941 Twin Coach bus and its unidentified driver parked outside the Denver Tramway Motor Coach Division building located in Denver, Colorado. The Motor Coach Division Building of the Denver Tramway Company figured into the Denver metropolitan region's transition from streetcars to gas and diesel powered, rubber-tired motor coaches, or buses, in the period from 1937 to 1950. The 1893 building began as a storage facility for electric streetcars, but a 1937 addition doubled the size of the facility and began its function as a bus garage and maintenance facility. An additional expansion occurred in 1947 to accommodate more buses necessitated by the expansion of public transportation to meet Denver's post-World War II growth.
Original photograph held by The Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, History Colorado
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