Word: wickman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 a single jitney...
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...