When you take a careful research on the histoty and development of the U.S school bus, you will find that strictly speaking the school bus in the United States here has a very long history. Let me introduce to you simply. In fact, as early as the automobile was invented, in the United States, there was already special bus which was used to shuttle students. At that time, this school bus was the carriage. It is said that the first company which produced the school bus is the WayneWorks. In 1837, one carriage which could take 25 children was designed and manufactured to shuttle students. However, such school bus was manily used in rural areas rather than towns because the students in the rural areas always lived in scattered so that without school bus, it was not easy for children to go to school. On the other hands, the town or even city was too small so that children only need to walk a few blocks to go to school. Under such circumstance, school bus was not necessary. After about 1886 years, such carriage was named as the School cars or School trucks by people.
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