Gray Line Worldwide
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Gray Line Worldwide operates local sightseeing tours across the world using trolley coaches, double-deckers and standard single deck coaches
Bus
A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-decker bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker buses and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are...

. It also offers charter services, airport transfers and convention services.

Gray Line has a presence in over 150 locations around the world. In 2004 its carriers handled some 25 million passengers.

The company was founded in 1910 by restaurateur Louis Bush, who refurbished a Mack Truck
Mack Trucks
Mack Trucks is an American truck-manufacturing company and a former manufacturer of buses and trolley buses. A wholly owned subsidiary of Renault Véhicules Industriels since 1990, Mack Trucks is currently a subsidiary of AB Volvo. The company's headquarters are located in Greensboro, North Carolina...

 and offered tours of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 It is currently based in Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

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Gray Line Toronto and Gray Line Ottawa are operated by Greyhound Canada. The Toronto operation was formerly run by Gray Coach
Gray Coach
Gray Coach was an inter-city bus line based in Toronto, Ontario, from 1927 to 1991.-Overview and history:Gray Coach Lines was a suburban bus operator founded in 1927 by the Toronto Transportation Commission. From 1927 to the 1930s, Gray Coach acquired numerous and smaller competitors in the Greater...

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Gray Line Montreal
Gray Line Montreal
Gray Line Montreal, although a member of the Coach Canada family, is an independently managed operation, that also formerly carried the brand of Stagecoach Montréal. They run a fleet of tourtrams, coaches and double-decker buses in and around Montreal, Canada, under the banner of Gray Line...

 is operated by Coach Canada
Coach Canada
Coach Canada is the Canadian affiliate of Coach USA, and part of the North American operations of Stagecoach, the international transport group, with its headquarters in Perth, Scotland, UK....

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Gray Line Australia
Gray Line Australia
Gray Line Australia is an Australian provider of sightseeing tours operating in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Tasmania, Cairns,Perth, Alice Springs, Darwin, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. It is run and operated by Driver Group and associated with Gray Line Worldwide....

 is operated by Driver Group
Driver Group
Driver Group is a privately owned bus and coach operator in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. As a Melbourne bus company, it operates a number of bus routes under contract from the Victorian State Government.-History:...

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Gray Line New Zealand Tours is operated by Johnston's Coachlines.

Gray Line Salzburg is operated by Dr. Richard.

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Notable Past and Present Gray Line NYC Tour Guides

  • Joshua Goldberg
  • Lee Klein
    Lee Klein
    Lee Klein is a poet, curator, essayist, and writer on the arts.-Career:He is the author of the "World's Biggest Shopping Mall Poem" about the taking over of reality by consumer culture...

  • Timothy "Speed" Levitch
  • David E. Mark
    David E. Mark
    David Everett Mark was a Career Minister in the United States Foreign Service.Born in New York City to Leslie Mark and Lena Tyor Mark, Mark graduated from Columbia University, and while serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he completed his studies at Columbia Law School. He joined...

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