San Antonio rolled out the history-making bus on Dec. 6, 1945.
The San Antonio Transit Co. rolled out the world's first air conditioned bus on Dec. 6, 1945 as a forerunner of a fleet of 100 air-conditioned vehicles that would be put into use in the Alamo City by the following summer.public bus debuted in San Antonio 77 years ago, the San Antonio Evening News promised readers that sweating in sweltering San Antonio would be a thing of the past.
The San Antonio Transit Company rolled out the history-making bus on Dec. 6, 1945, as a forerunner of a fleet of 100 air-conditioned vehicles that would be put into use in the Alamo City by the following summer. The air-conditioning unit for San Antonio's public bus was built by Carrier Corp. and employed a belt-driven compressor with an evaporator mounted at the rear of the bus.To emphasize the bus’ command over Texas’ climate, the News published a photo of two women on and near the bus. Mary Mars stood by its entrance wearing “an appropriate winter costume of a fur coat.” Betty Jo Menck sat on the roof in a bathing suit to “indicate that the bus would be comfortable even in the summer.
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