Mid Bus

Mid Bus was a corporation which specialized in manufacturing customized school buses.

With the baby boom years which swelled the ranks of school children in the past, the manufacturing industry faced serious over-capacity as companies vied and competed for lower volumes of purchases.

Initially, they had a seven other former employees of the large factory, and worked in a small shop on Wayne Street in Lima, OH.

In the mid-1980s, the company acquired the Minuteman product line from AmTran (formerly Ward Body Company) and in the early 1990s, the tooling and product rights to Busette from Wayne Corporation.

Mid Bus became a subsidiary of Collins Industries, a publicly traded stock company, in 1998.