EARLY BUS AND AUTO STAGE LINES

NEW YORK


BUS COMPANIES EXISTING IN THE 1940'S

Long Island.


Name                             Original Route               Start Date    End Date

Henry W. Adelworth               East Moriches-Riverhead      May   2, 1943
Bay Park-East Rockaway Bus       East Rockaway-Bay Park       May   7, 1928
Bee Line                         Rosedale-Freeport            Dec. 29, 1925
Robert R. Brown                  Greenport-Orient Point       May  26, 1936
Ellsworth H. Combes              Rockville C.-Long Beach      Apr.  2, 1926-1940
Harold Cordingley                Bay Shore-East Northport              1936
Dileo Bus Lines                  Baldwin Harbor-Bellmore      Aug. 18, 1935
Philip E. DiPaolo                East Patchogue-Farmingdale   Sep. 27, 1942-Mar. 31, 1944
George J. Disque                 Smithtown-Long Beach                  1946
Louis A. Fuoco                   Bellport-Patchogue           Jul.  1, 1927
Oscar Hauman                     Bay Shore station-dock       Jun.  1, 1935
Charles D. Hawkins               Center Moriches-Mastik B.             1942
Hempstead Bus Corp.              Lynbrook-Garden City         Mar. 21, 1926
Irwin S. Hendrickson             Glen Cove-Oyster Bay         Apr.  1, 1929
Huntington Coach Corp.           Halesite-Huntington          Aug. 15, 1927
Jamaica Buses                    Jamaica-Far Rockaway         Nov. 12, 1933
Jerusalem Avenue Bus Line        Hempstead-North Bellmore     Jan.  1, 1924
Palma Juliano                    Lindenhurst                  Mar.  1, 1940
Clara Leigh                      Amityville-Babylon                    1942
Long Beach Bus Co.               Long Beach                   Jul.  3, 1926
Mack Brothers                    Baldwin-Baldwin Harbor                1938
Joseph Francis Maranta           Massapequa-Farmmingdale      Jul.  8, 1946
Ercole Moles                     Lindenhurst-Bethpage         Jun.     1942-1946
Montauk Bus Line                 Montauk                               1941-1944
Nassau Bus Lines                 Lynbrook-New York City       Jan.  1, 1923
Northport Transportation Co.     Cold Spring-Northport        Jan.  1, 1926
North Shore Bus Co.              Little Neck-Roslyn           Jul.  1, 1921
Charles G. Offerman              Merrick-North Bellmore       Mar.     1925
William D. Parsons               Montauk station-lighthouse            1934-Nov. 10, 1940
Woodbury L. Purington            Farmingdale-Hicksville       Aug. 15, 1946
Thomas J. Quinn                  Patchogue-Port Jefferson     Nov.  1, 1938
Quinn & Goodier & Quinn          Port Jefferson-Wildwood SP            1941
Rockville Centre Bus Corp.       Rockville Centre                      1928
Roosevelt Bus Line               Freeport                     Nov. 17, 1933
Schenck Transportation Co.       Mineola                      Apr. 16, 1926
Burkhard Seidenschwarz           Lake Ronkonkoma-Bethpage              1943
Semke Bus Line                   Hempstead-Rockville Center   Jan. 12, 1924
Simone Buses                     Amityville                            1938
Gus Simone                       Freeport                              1931-1941
South Huntington Bus Co.         Huntington                   Apr.  9, 1935
Star Bus Lines                   Freeport-Bellmore                     1942
Leo Steiner                      Kings Park-Bethpage          Jul. 21, 1942-Dec. 12, 1945
James T. Thomasson               Sag Harbor-Southampton       Jul.  1, 1942-Jun. 30, 1946
Universal Auto Bus Service       Great Neck                   Jul.  1, 1921
Utility Lines                    Patchogue-Sayville           Dec. 24, 1929
Clifford E. Windsor              East Hampton                          1945
Charles H. Woop                  Amityville-Huntington        Jan.  1, 1924-1940

Name                             Original Route               Start Date    End Date


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