Record #:

6810

Author(s):

Lancaster, Michael

Abstract:

Thomas Built Buses was founded in 1916 by Perley A. Thomas in High Point. Thomas was working for the Southern Car Company, and when that company went out of business, he started his own streetcar company. When streetcar use declined, he moved into the manufacture of buses. Today his grandson, John W. Thomas, Jr., is chairman, president, and CEO of the company, which turns out about fifty buses a day. Thomas is profiled in NORTH CAROLINA magazine's “executive profile.”

Source:

North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 48 Issue 10, Oct 1990, p16, 18, 20, por

Subject(s):

Thomas Built Buses, Inc. (High Point); Bus industry--High Point; Thomas, John Willard, 1927-