Question: Ford dealer and future Blue Bird founder Albert Luce Sr. began building steel-framed school buses after what part of a bus he sold fell apart on rural Georgia roads?
Answer: Its wooden body. In 1925, Luce mounted a purchased wooden body on a Ford truck for a customer, but it began rattling apart before the customer finished paying. By 1927, Luce, who owned Ford dealerships in Perry and Fort Valley, built a sturdier bus with a steel framework, now the oldest surviving school bus in America and the first Blue Bird.