Launched in 1950, the famous T1 is the second Volkswagen model sold after the Beetle. This explains why its name is Type 2. But this first-generation Kombi is also retroactively called T1, to distinguish it from the updated versions that followed! Here we have the lovely minibus Samba, produced in 1951, with its 8 roof windows and its opening canvas roof.

Launched in 1950, the famous T1 is the second Volkswagen model sold after the Beetle. This explains why its name is Type 2. But this first-generation Kombi is also retroactively called T1, to distinguish it from the updated versions that followed! Here we have the lovely minibus Samba, produced in 1951, with its 8 roof windows and its opening canvas roof.

Skoda was the main automobile manufacturer in Czechoslovakia's Soviet era. Bought in 1991 by Volkswagen, this brand has long been known for its small rear-engined sedans. Skoda also manufactured lorries and buses, such as this 706 RO marketed from 1946 to 1958 and intended, depending on the configuration, for public urban or road transportation.

This Hungarian bus manufacturer was founded in 1895. In 1999, Irisbus, a brand created by a joint venture between Renault and Iveco, bought Ikarus, which then went bankrupt in 2007. Today, Ikarus has been established again under other capitals. This 1961 Ikarus 620 is a 9.35 m/368 in-long front-engined compact bus manufactured between 1959 and 1972.

The platform of this utility vehicle released in 1935 was still used at the end of the 1960s. Here we have a 1947 model year, whose design remains close to the original U23. This version was transformed into a coach. This Norev diecast model is in 1:87 scale, the equivalent of the HO scale of model trains.

Between 1958 and 1977, more than 44,000 units of the GMC New Look, also called Fishbowl, were produced in the United States (until 1985 in Canada). The one we have here was used in Quebec. It is a 1972 model year, which means it receives the three lights above the windshield that appeared in 1968 and an exhaust outlet on the left side, installed from 1972.

Heinrich Büssing, then 60, with his two sons, founded the German brand Büssing in 1903. MAN will finally swallow up this brand in 1971. This Senator was built in the 1960s. A double-decker variant also existed, but here we have a model with only one level, serving the city of Bad Vilbel, north of Frankfurt in Germany.

The German company Neoplan was founded in 1935 and has always been specialised in bus and coach manufacturing. The Hamburg range, to which this model belongs, was introduced in Geneva in 1961 and was produced until 1974. This 1964 NH 9L (9 m/354 in.-long, 9 rows without the driver) was slightly longer than the NH8 (8.16 m/321 in.-long).

Rochet-Schneider was a company based in Lyon in 1889 that started to build automobiles in 1899. Car production was discontinued in 1931, followed by truck production in 1951, after Berliet bought the brand. This "23000" torpedo was bodied by the Chaboud company, located in Grenoble, in 1937 (some sources mention 1932) and was used for excursions to Notre-Dame de La Salette.

Yellow Coach started to manufacture buses in 1940. Then General Motors took the company over from 1944. This series of buses will be produced until 1969 in different variants, before giving way to a new generation of models. Between 1953 and 1960, 825 units of this TDH-3714 were produced in this version, which could be seen in Santa Monica, California.