"Transbus" is also the former name of UK bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis

Alexander Dennis

Alexander Dennis Limited is the largest bus builder in the United Kingdom. It incorporated the three last surviving bus manufacturers which started bus production before World War II: Dennis, Alexander and Plaxton.- History :Alexander Dennis was formed as TransBus on 1 January 2001, after the...

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The Transbus design was begun in the 1970s by the U.S. Urban Mass Transit Administration to produce a modern looking mass transit bus

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...

 design. General Motors, Flxible

Flxible

The Flxible Co. was a motorcycle sidecar, funeral car, ambulance, intercity coach and transit bus manufacturing company based in the United States that was founded in 1913, and which closed in 1996.-History:In 1913, Hugo H. Young and Carl F...

, and AM General

AM General

AM General is an American heavy vehicle manufacturer based in South Bend, Indiana. It is best known for the civilian Hummer and the military Humvee, that is assembled in Mishawaka, Indiana...

each produced a Transbus design, although only GM's bore any resemblance to the actual production coach (RTS). Flxible's evolved into the 870 design and AM General stopped making buses. Had the Transbus gone into production, transit agencies would have been forced to purchase it or lose federal funding.