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[Dieseljim]

The following, to the best of my knowledge is the roster of buses NFT of Buffalo had in operation during 1969-70:

GMC TDH5106 1957 BTC 300-315 NFT600-615 15 buses
GMC TDH5106 1958 BTC 316-319 NFT616-619 5 buses
GMC TDH5302 1961 BTC 340-349 NFT700-709 10 buses, last BTCs
Mack C49DT 1957 6200-6244 45 buses
Mack C49DT 1958 6300-6329 30 buses
Mack C49DT 1959 6330-6359 30 buses, last Macks
GMC TDH5301 1960-61 7400-7459 60 buses, 49 seats
GMC TDH5304 1963 7500-7549 50 buses
GMC TDH5304 1966 7600-7649 50 buses
GMC TDH5304 1966 7650-7684 35 buses
GMC TDH5304 1967 7685-7719 35 buses
GMC T6H5306 1968 7720-7744 25 buses
GMC T6H5306 1968-69 7745-7769 25 buses
GMC T6H5306 1969 7770-7794 25 buses, last new
buses received by NFT. NFT also had 45 TDH5106s delivered in two groups: 7000-7029 in 1953-54 and 7100-7114 in 1957. NFT wound up with a total of 65 of these buses with the 20 from the Buffalo Transit Company added to the fleet and renumbered. The ex BTC 340-349 renumbered as 700-709 were last operated in revenue service in 1978, with one having been converted to a vault bus. 20 other TDH5301s, all from a cancelled Buffalo Transit Company order were added to the fleet, these were numbered 7470-7489. This group of buses will not show up on any production records, but I have seen one in this group in revenue service during Metrobus days when much of the NFT fleet was still intact. When NFT merged Buffalo Transit Company in 1963, all of the 36 and 45 seat buses were sold off as were both of BTC's garages.