Orion (bus)

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Orion International

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legal form Public Company (Canada)
founding 1975
resolution 2013
Seat Mississauga CanadaCanadaCanada 
management Andreas Strecker (CEO)
Number of employees 1,400
Branch Bus vehicles

Orion VII Next Generation

Orion International , previously Orion Bus Industries and Ontario Bus Industries in Canada and Bus Industries of America, was a North American manufacturer of buses . The company was acquired by Freightliner in 2000 and has been part of Daimler AG ever since . That is why it has been operating as Daimler Buses North America since 2006 . Until 2013 buses were still sold under the name Orion.

history

In 1975, the government of the Canadian province of Ontario established Ontario Bus and Truck , which was based in Mississauga and produced buses for the provincial transport companies. In 1981 the subsidiary Bus Industries of America was founded in Oriskany in the US state of New York .

With the acquisition by Western Star Trucks in 1995, the companies were merged and renamed Orion Bus Industries . The name Orion followed by a consecutive Roman numeral has been used as a model name for all buses since 1977, including the Orion III, a renamed Ikarus 286 .

In 2012, Daimler announced that it would close the plant and discontinue the Orion brand due to the shrinking American bus market. Orion buses have not been built since 2013.

Web links

Commons : Orion  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Daimler plans closing compaunds Canada´s manufacturing pain , at www.theglobeandmail.com , accessed on October 4, 2015