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Hamburg bus purchased by Brown-McLaren Manufacturing to transport Hamburg children to Ann Arbor schools, March 1944 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Hamburg bus purchased by Brown-McLaren Manufacturing to transport Hamburg children to Ann Arbor schools, March 1944 image
Year:
1944
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, March 31, 1944
Caption:
SCHOOL ABSENTEE PROBLEM SOLVED: When Hamburg High school students, who attend classes at Ann Arbor High school, found wartime travel restrictions making it nearly impossible to attend school, many of them dropped out and forgot about further education. Then R. C. Brown and some of his cohorts at the Brown-McLaren Manufacturing Co. in Hamburg stepped into the picture and solved the school transportation problem by purchasing a $3,300 school bus that makes the Hamburg-Ann Arbor trip daily carrying 12 Hamburg students and an extra 10 picked up at Whitmore Lake. The new bus started its runs this week but it isn't the first effect of Mr. Brown's benevolence to be felt at the Hamburg school. He also purchased a $1,000 fire escape for the school building and has made other improvements possible. Shown in the picture foreground, left to right, are Mr. Brown, the company president; Harry Andrews, treasurer; Ora Moehl, auditor, and Charles Heath.