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History
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Blue Bird Corporation page on 26 July 2016, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Blue Bird Corporation (originally known as the Blue Bird Body Company) is an American bus manufacturer headquartered in Fort Valley, Georgia. Best known for as a manufacturer of school buses, the company has also manufactured a wide variety of other bus types, including transit buses, motorhomes, and specialty vehicles such as mobile libraries and mobile police command centers. Currently, Blue Bird concentrates its product lineup on school and activity buses and specialty vehicle derivatives.
After company founder A.L. Luce produced a steel-panel school bus in his auto dealership in 1927, he started production of bus bodies exclusively in 1932, founding Blue Bird Body Company in Fort Valley, Georgia. Remaining under family control into the early 1990s, the company changed hands several times in the 2000s and became publicly owned in February 2015, with previous owner Cerberus Capital Management holding a 58% share of the company.
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| 27 November 1967 | NHTSA Letter of Interpretation: FMVSS Interpretation From: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration To: Blue Bird Body Company | Letter - 1 page |
| classified date 1995 | On-Site School Bus Fire Investigation 1986 Chevrolet, 66-passenger, school bus (i.e., 6000 series chassis and cowl, body by Bluebird National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |  PDF - 110MB - 378 pages |
| classified date 1994 | In-Depth Accident Investigation 1987 Bluebird Forward Control Bus National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | PDF - 68.3MB - 130 pages |
| classified date 1995 | Calspan On-Site School Bus/Pedestrian Accident Investigation School Bus: 1989 Blue Bird Type D Body National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | PDF - 7.2MB - 15 pages |
| October 1996 | Remote School Bus Investigation Vehicle - 1993 International 3700 with Bluebird Body National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | PDF - 780KB - 11 pages |
| June 1999 | School Bus Crash Investigation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | PDF - 20KB - 6 pages |
| April 1999 | School Bus Crash Investigation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | PDF - 21KB - 6 pages |
| May 1999 | Veridian On-Site School Bus Crash Investigation School Bus Chassis - 1999 Freightliner Conventional Body - Blue Bird 65 Passenger Capacity National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | PDF - 168KB - 13 pages |
| 1 July 2003 | FMVSS No. 217: "Bus Emergency Exits and Window Retention and Release" Compliance Test Report 2003 Blue Bird, 36 Passenger Transit Bus National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | PDF - 317KB - 22 pages |
| 3 July 2003 | FMVSS No. 217: "Bus Emergency Exits and Window Retention and Release" Compliance Test Report 2003 Blue Bird, 36 Passenger Transit Bus National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | PDF - 245KB - 18 pages |
