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type underfloor engine. The Mack-International Company had a pusher-type bus with an engine in the rear, and the International Harvester Company offered a tractor-trailer combination. Preliminary tests showed that the Mack and the Harvester buses were impractical, so the first Highway Post Office bus was a modified version of one manufactured by the White Motor Company of Cleveland, Ohio. It was made of Duraluminum and had inside dimensions of 32 feet by 71/2 feet. White advertised its bus in the May 24, 1941 issue of The Saturday Evening Post (below). White Motor Company bus advertisement.
