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  School Bus Explorer Archives - The Carpenter Page
The Ralph H. Carpenter Body Company was founded in Mitchell, Indiana in 1919.
Ralph Carpenter was a flsmith- wagon maker from Bloomington, Indiana when he built the first wooden, horsedrawn wagons used for carrying school children.
Carpenter has been known as the Ralph H. Carpenter Body Company, Carpenter Body Works, Inc., Carpenter Manufacturing Company, and finally Carpenter Industries, Inc. After Crown Coach of California went out of business, Carpenter bought at least some of their engineering and designs as well as the rights to the Crown name.
busexplorer.com /SchoolBus/CarpenterMain.html   (299 words)

  
 Carpenter Bees - Penn State Entomology Department Fact Sheet
Carpenter bees resemble bumblebees in both size and appearance, but are not social insects.
A carpenter bee begins her nest by drilling a nearly perfectly round entrance hole (about 1/2 inch diameter) into the wood.
Newly developed adult carpenter bees emerge in August, feed on nectar and return to the tunnels to over-winter.
www.ento.psu.edu /extension/factsheets/carpenter_bees.htm   (886 words)

  
 AcmeHardware.com | home improvement | Home Tips: Pests - Carpenter Ants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Carpenter ants may occur in several colors, although the most important species are fl.
Since carpenter ants may forage as far as 200 yards or further, the main colony may be located on a neighboring property.
Carpenter ant queens are about 3/4-inch in length while the males are smaller at 1/2-inch.
acmehardware.com /HomeTips/Pests/carpenter_ants.aspx   (1854 words)

  
 Carpenter Body Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Carpenter's first true school bus was built in 1923.
Carpenter was a leading name in church bus and school bus safety efforts for many years.
It was restored by Carpenter Body Works in the early 1980s under the supervision of Ollie Eager, who was Carpenter's plant manager in 1936 and John Foddrill, who worked in the Carpenter plant in 1936.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carpenter_Body_Company   (1821 words)

  
 Galaxie Gazette - Company Profile - Dennis Carpenter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Dennis Carpenter Reproductions for Ford Products is a company whose reputation and products have become synonymous with quality and variety.
Dennis Carpenter is involved in die casting, which is the process used to make automobile door handles, fender ornaments, scripts etc.
I am glad to announce that Dennis Carpenter Reproductions is now reproducing the back door weather strip needed on almost every 1963 and 1964 Country Sedan or Country Squire station wagon.
www.galaxieclub.com /companyprofiles/denniscarpenter.html   (399 words)

  
 Blue Bird Corp. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That same year, both Blue Bird Body Company and Wayne Works of Richmond, Indiana reportedly began building all-steel bus bodies, an innovation which soon replaced the wooden bodies which were then in common use around the United States.
Two years later, in 1950, Blue Bird Body Company developed a transit style design which evolved into the Blue Bird All-American, generally considered one of the first successful transit designs to gain widespread use for school buses throughout in the US.
By 1980, Blue Bird was one of the big six school bus body companies in the United States, competing with Carpenter Body Company, Superior Coach Company, Thomas Built Buses, Inc., Ward Body Company, and Wayne Corporation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blue_Bird_Corporation   (1107 words)

  
 John Carpenter (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
John Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York.
Warrior and the Demon (1969) (as Johnny Carpenter)
Celluloid Apocalypse: An Interview with John Carpenter (2006) (V)....
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