Van Con

Van Con, Incorporated (often shortened to Van Con) is a manufacturer of bodies for school buses. Based in Middlesex, New Jersey, the company sells buses primarily in New York and the northeastern United States. The company specializes in bodies for cutaway van chassis.

Van Con Inc. was founded by Paul Anderson and is currently owned and operated by his son Jim Anderson.

Van Con, Incorporated
Industry	Bus manufacturing
Founded	1973
Founder	Paul Anderson
Headquarters	Middlesex, New Jersey, United States
Area served	Northeastern United States
Key people	Jim Anderson, Owner
Products	School buses

Founded in 1973, Van Con, Incorporated is a school bus body manufacturer based out of Middlesex, NJ, and their buses are fairly popular in the northeast of the United States.

Company history

A Van-Con school bus based on a Chevrolet Express, showing its deployed wheelchair lift.

Initial production included models based upon Ford Econoline chassis; the company was also one of the few to build bus bodies on the Dodge Ram Van chassis. Today, along with the Ford E-Series, van conversions are done on the Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana cutaway chassis. Van Con specializes in manufacturing handicap-accessible buses with wheelchair lifts as an option.

The current production of a student transportation vehicle is a 16 to 30-seat bus, not including the driver.

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North American bus builders

Active	Blue Bird Corporation DINA S.A. Environmental Performance Vehicles Ford Motor Company Gillig Corporation Girardin Minibus Glaval Bus IC Bus Lion Bus Millennium Transit Services New Flyer Industries Motor Coach Industries New Flyer North American Bus Industries Nova Bus Optima Bus Corporation Proterra, Inc. Prevost Car REV Group Champion Bus Incorporated Collins Bus Corporation ElDorado National Setra Stallion Bus and Transit Corp. Starcraft Bus Thomas Built Buses Trans Tech Van Con

Defunct	ACF-Brill Aerocoach AM General AmTran Beck Canadian Car and Foundry Carpenter Body Company Crown Coach Corporation Dupont Industries Eagle Bus Fageol Fifth Avenue Bus Company FitzJohn Flxible General Motors Diesel Division (GM Coach) GM Truck and Coach Division Goshen Coach Kenworth LAG Motorcoach Les Enterprises Michel Corbeil Mack Trucks Marmon-Herrington MASA Neoplan USA Orion International Pullman-Standard St. Louis Car Company Superior Coach Company Transportation Manufacturing Corporation Twin Coach U.S. Bus Corporation Ward Body Works Wayne Corporation Wayne Wheeled Vehicles White Motor Company Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company

School bus manufacturers, North America

Active manufacturers

Full-size and small buses	Blue Bird Corporation (small buses made by Girardin Minibus) IC Bus Lion Bus (full-size buses only) Thomas Built Buses, Inc

Small buses only	Collins Industries Collins Corbeil Girardin Minibus (renamed Micro Bird by Girardin) Starcraft Bus Trans Tech Van Con

Defunct manufacturers
(including date of closure
or last school bus manufacture)

2000s	Carpenter Industries, Inc (2001) American Transportation Corporation (AmTran) (2002; became IC Bus) Les Enterprises Michel Corbeil (2008; acquired by Collins) Liberty Bus (2005) Mid Bus (2008) U.S. Bus Corporation (2006; became Trans Tech)

1990s	Coach and Equipment Manufacturing (1999; still in business) Crown Coach Corporation (1991) Gillig Corporation (1993; still in business) Mid Bus (1998; acquired by Collins) TAM-USA (1991) Wayne Corporation (1992; became Wayne Wheeled Vehicles) Wayne Wheeled Vehicles (1995)

1980s	Ward Body Works (1980; became AmTran) New Bus Company (1989) Superior Coach Company (1985)

1970s	Northern Coach Perley A. Thomas Car Works (1972; became Thomas Built Buses)

1960s	Hackney Brothers Body Company (1966)

1950s	Kenworth-Pacific (1957; still in business)

List of school bus manufacturers

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