The bus purchased by Gus Greenlee in 1932 for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, The Pittsburgh Courier said:
“It is a 17-passenger Mack, with a six-cylinder, 79-horsepower motor. It is capable of 60 miles an hour, and is equipped with vacuum booster foot breaks.”
It is not the same vehicle which appears in the iconic photo of the 1935 Crawfords posed in front of the team bus–although the bus in the 1935 picture has been referred to as a 1932 Mack.
The Crawfords used the bus for the first time on their trip to Hot Springs, Arkansas in the spring of 1932. With Greenlee behind the wheel , they left Pittsburgh on March 11, and according to The Courier, “arrived at the spa without any mishaps” on March 15.
The photo below, with Josh Gibson and Oscar Charleston (second and third from right) shows the 1932 bus–the photo below that is the bus that appears in the 1935 photo.
Baseball History Daily 
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