This photo from the Allen County Historical Society, a line of new buses produced by the Superior Body Co. for the Lima City Lines approaches downtown Lima in May 1939. “The exterior of the buses is finished in cardinal red and cream with aluminum roofs and wheels while the interiors have an ivory and light green color scheme,” the Lima News reported May 11, 1939.
Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society
A half century ago, aiming to bring some stability to the county’s occasionally chaotic public transportation system, the Allen County Commissioners approved the creation of a regional transit authority…