Miniature Bus For Small Riders
in March 1959 Popular Mechanics magazine
Eight children and one adult, the driver, can ride in a miniature bus constructed by L.A. Beretta of Lexington, Mo., from sheet aluminum and parts of cars and arm machinery. The tiny bus, a scale model of the type used by one of the cross-country buslines, has a top speed of 25 miles per hour. It's powered by an eight-horsepower engine and has an automatic transmission that works through a centrifugal clutch.
The midget bus has a wheelbase of 83 inches and weighs 1280 pounds. Beretta spent three years of his pare time on the project, plus $475 for materials. He did all the work himself except for welding the frame. The springs came from a hay baler and from a mower. The bus has tractor headlights, fender parking lights from a 1941 Ford and directional lights converted from the parking lights of a 1941 Chevrolet. License-plate holders serve as side windows.
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