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Description: the British inventor Sir Goldworthy Gurney
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The first school bus was used in the 1869 in Mass and was a modified farm wagon designed to carry students to and from school.
A British inventor, Sir Goldworthy Gurney, designed a bus, which was powered by steam. This was used as public transportation.
The first school bus was horse-drawn, introduced in 1827 by George Shillibeer for a Quaker school at Abney Park. Thanks, ChaCha.
In 1914, Wayne Works dropped a wooden kid hack onto an automobile chassis, creating a predecessor to the modern motor school bus.
