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Wayne County Historical Museum

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Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Wayne County Historical Museum
Phone:
+1 765-962-5756

Hours:
SundayClosed
Monday9am - 4pm
Tuesday9am - 4pm
Wednesday9am - 4pm
Thursday9am - 4pm
Friday9am - 4pm
Saturday1pm - 4pm


Wayne Corporation was a manufacturer of buses and other vehicles branded with the trade name Wayne. The corporate headquarters were in Richmond, Indiana, in Wayne County, Indiana, in the United States. During the middle 20th century, Wayne served as a leading producer of school buses in North America. Among innovations introduced by the company were the first application of cutaway van chassis for a school bus and an improvement in structural integrity in bus body construction, involving the use of continuous longitudinal panels to reduce body joints; the design change happened before federal standards required stronger body structures in school buses. After 1980, Wayne faced difficulty competing in a market with overcapacity. Declaring bankruptcy, the company discontinued operations in 1992 and its assets were liquidated. Later in 1992, the Wayne brand was reorganized as Wayne Wheeled Vehicles, doing business through 1995.
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