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| 4903 |  | Details | Florida Motor Lines | 1929 |
| Map Brochure for a Circle Tour of Florida $37.50 |
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Florida Motor Lines |
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| 1929 |
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| $0.00 | Florida-Motor-Lines | Map-Brochure-for-a-Circle-Tour-of-Florida-$37-50 | SOLD<br></br>
A Circle Tour of Florida brochure with map, printed during the Florida land boom of the late 1920's. Tour duration could last "Four days to four months depending upon the stopovers." By Florida Motor Lines, later the first subsidiary of Greyhound Bus Lines.
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With locations and telephone numbers for bus stations and terminals including Miami, where the phone number was "8888". Folds to 3" x 9".
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"FLORIDA MOTOR LINES, INC. was formed in January 1926 by the firm Stone and Webster by buying and consolidating Florida Motor Transportation Company and White Stage Line Company. Based in Orlando, Florida, the company owned 150 coaches and ran some 1,290 route miles. On October 24, 1929 “a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity was issued to Florida Motor Lines to operate motor busses for compensation in transporting passengers on all the highways of the state then being operated upon by the applicant, and especially over State Highway No. 4, between Jacksonville and Miami.” In 1933 the company moved its office to Jacksonville. In January 1946 Florida Motor Lines was sold to The Greyhound Corporation, which renamed it Florida Greyhound Lines. The new Florida Greyhound Lines was the first wholly owned subsidiary of The Greyhound Corporation." (Online: https://transitbadges.com/def/)
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