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...boss of the Greyhound Corp., Orville Swan Caesar, 61, heads the biggest transportation system in the world (10.6 billion passenger-miles traveled last year). But he is still not satisfied. Last week he announced "the start of a new era," ushered in by a new bus. Next month the first of 500 Scenicruisers, costing $25 million, will start rolling off the line at General Motors Corp. and go into service between New York and Miami...
With his new buses, Caesar plans to push Greyhound's fast-growing special services such as charter buses, package express shipments and all-expense tours around the U.S. A fortnight ago, he started his first sleeping service between San Francisco and Chicago, which includes four overnight hotel stops in the fare. Price: $69.40 with a single room, $62.90 in a double room...
Jitney Beginning. Orville Caesar, a mechanic turned executive, still likes to tinker with machinery in his home workshop in Harrington, Ill. He invented the Tropic-Aire hot-water heater to replace the dangerous and smelly exhaust-pipe system for heating buses, saw it become the standard for passenger cars. The son of a Swedish blacksmith, Caesar went to work in an auto-repair shop in his teens, later started a small bus service. In 1925 he joined forces with the late Eric Wickman, who had been building up a bus system in Minnesota since 1914, when he started with...
...Caesar and Wickman began gobbling up or buying into bus lines all over the country with cash from stock sales and from railroads farsighted enough to see that bus routes could take over unprofitable train runs and serve as feeder lines...
...Goal. With a Greyhound System spread over the U.S., Caesar began to buy out the partially owned lines and his railroad partners. He is now ready to spend $25.8 million on such deals (in addition to the $82 million already spent postwar) when ICC approves...