Talk:Thomas Built Buses

BUSSES 82-2 AND 91-5 WERE THE BEST THOMAS BUILT BUSSES IN THE WORLD
AND I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE

Dear Fellow bus lover:

Do you by chance belong to the school bus fleet magazine forum? If not, you will almost certainly want to check it out. I among others would like to know why you think those particular buses were good (really), and discuss features, etc.

I toured the old bus plants at Mitchell and High Point, and was on the dealer council for the Richmond Indiana bus plant when it was Wayne.

Your contributions of the type you have submitted so far here will continue to get reverted because they don't meet Wikipedia criteria, not because it isn't;t good that you are interested in those buses (and those models?).

If you are a true school bus enthusiast, you are in for a treat at School Bus Fleet Magazine online forum

Sorry about the revert, but a lot of work is going into the various Wikipedia articles on school buses and we need facts to be documented to survive edits.

Mark in Richmond Vaoverland 18:17, May 15, 2005 (UTC)

Suggestions for the article
So far, the article has a fairly solid foundation; it doesn't need much in the way of fundamental changes as for improvements and updates. I do want to point a few things out, however:


 * In terms of perspective, the corporate history of Thomas is slanted somewhat towards the beginning and doesn't elaborate very much towards the present day in comparison. (grouping content into a chronological timeline may help to re-organize this)
 * The information about Thomas's products relies a little too much on tables and on the separate articles; the main page here needs some more space dedicated to them in actual writing.
 * As far as the products go, I am thinking of suggesting that any article space dedicated to Thomas Type D school buses be dedicated to one single article space (Thomas Saf-T-Liner), as there are numerous variations of similar products, the HDX being the latest generation.
 * This may be the case on a number of school bus manufacturer articles, but some product information may need some additional verification when dealing with products from the past.

I hope this doesn't sound too negative, but I just want to give some constructive feedback and help to steer editors in the right direction.--SteveCof00 (talk) 08:53, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Article re-format
As it was, the previous layout (with 4 tables) was getting kind of awkward. I re-formatted the information in that section (for the time being) and moved the images into their own section.

As far as the rest of the content goes, there seem to be gaps in the company history that need to be filled in (it jumps from the late 1930s to 1972, then to 1980 then skips around basically to the present day). --SteveCof00 (talk) 20:16, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

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Ford Transit content
Not to keep going with some edit war with an unregistered user, but I cannot find any supporting factual content anywhere to support that the manufacturer is producing such a vehicle (at this time). Although other school bus manufacturers have produced bodies on the Ford Transit chassis, Thomas Built Buses has not announced such a vehicle (as of May 2017). --SteveCof00 (talk) 10:15, 4 May 2017 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion: You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 13:36, 17 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Thomas International school bus.jpg

Adding section "2020-Present"
this really isn't a major edit but its for additional information about what the company will do in the 2020's --Salvador 626 (talk) 23:49, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I mean I renamed "2010-Present" to "2010s" during this article update. this is a minor change. --Salvador 626 (talk) 23:58, 8 March 2021 (UTC)