Versare Company

Versare Car Company was a bus and trolley bus maker founded in 1925 and originally based in Watervliet, New York.

Among their early work were experimental buses that utilized gasoline (Buda or Waukesha) and electric engines that could be run alone or together, a technique that could be seen as a very early ancestor to dual-mode vehicles of the modern day.

In 1928, the assets of the company were purchased by the Cincinnati Car Company and the company's base was moved from Watervliet to Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Versare nameplate returned in 1931 and remained until its demise in 1938.

A long, 8-wheeled city bus is viewed from the side, parked in front of a brick building. The bus is about 1.5 times as tall as the uniformed man in the foreground.
Montreal Tramways Company bus #800, the "Atwater Street Monster". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This Versare gas-electric bus was used in the 1920s and 1930s on the Atwater Avenue bus route. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]