[Nostrand Avenue at Fulton Street]
Photograph of Nostrand Avenue at Fulton Street in Brooklyn, NY. View is of the east side of Nostrand Avenue heading north, about twenty feet south of Fulton Street. The Nostrand Avenue line tracks are shown on Nostrand and a GMC bus 4840 on Fulton Street.
New York Transit MuseumNostrand Avenue at Fulton Street, August 11, 1950.
The Nostrand Avenue Line trolley tracks are visible at center on Nostrand. Traveling along Fulton Street is a bus manufactured by the General Motors Corporation. This was a GM "old-look" bus (compared to the “new-look” or “fishbowl” buses that were introduced in 1959). These vehicles, produced mostly between 1940 and 1959, were created with a monocoque (or structural skin) design, rather than a body-on-frame design, were diesel-powered, and had smaller windows than many of the buses produced after 1950. Some have compared the shape of this bus to a loaf of sandwich bread.
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