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Identify the year of the Packard Bus in this article.

The bus chassis appears to be a 1919-'23 Oldsmobile Economy Truck powered by a 224 ci OHV four cylinder engine not shared with their cars. The angled hood louvers are the clue to its identity.

Steve

Thanks Steve(58L8134) for clearing that up.

It appears the bus shown was Learmonth's Olds conversion, but this was followed by a Packard bus (converted from a Packard truck).

The idea to convert a Packard truck into a bus was likely derived from Earle C. Anthony of California-who was doing the same thing there around the same time.

Mr. Anthony acquired two old stage lines, one of which was Pickwick Stage Lines. Mr. Anthony used his Packard buses all over routes in Southern California and established (and mapped-even before AAA) many roads and travel routes. He had one route that ran from Los Angeles to Bakersfield-quite a trip in the early 1900s prior to highways. Another route from L.A. ran through Riverside, California and parts beyond out into the desert.

What did these Anthony-owned stage lines become? ALSO ancestors of Greyhound Bus Company. This information was presented in ECA's official bio information that was handed out to the press in the heyday of his KFI radio station in Los Angeles.

Of course if helped that ECA also had the southwestern distributorship for Packard Motor Car Company. He was quite an entrepreneur and innovator.