Link/s to history of the buss body manufacturer (part 1 and part 2), interesting stuff.

http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/w/wayne/wayne.htm

http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/w/wayne/wayne2.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Corporation

   

"Safety innovations[edit]

By 1927, Wayne Works was building all-steel bus bodies. In the following few years, the school bus bodies began to include a group of heavy-duty "collision rails" or "guard rails" as an added safety feature. Wayne Works was one of the earliest school bus companies to offer glass in place of the standard canvas curtains in the passenger area; glass did not become a common feature until the 1930s.

Although not the first to introduce the type, in the 1930s, Wayne Works was among the first manufacturers to produce transit-style school buses; a body with a more or less flat front-end design. Initial production of Wayne's "forward control" bus bodies were conversions of conventional bus chassis. However, the "conventional" design, with a cowled chassis (known as Type C on modern school buses) would be the bulk of Wayne's sales until production ended in 1992.

World War II – wooden bodies and trailer buses[edit]

To conserve steel for war use, Wayne Works and other manufacturers reverted from all-steel construction to building some bus bodies with wooden components during World War II. The company also developed trailer-type bodies for military use"