Royale Coach Co. - 1970s-1980s - Oldsmar, Florida


   

Royal Coach Co. Oldsmar, Florida (between Clearwater &  Tampa)

The original Jolly Trolleys purchased in 1979 cost Mr. Greenwald and other investors $74,000 each.

Twelve-passenger vans were modified to look like trolleys. They carried 14 passengers with entry from a rear platform. The bus-turned-trolley even included room for luggage under the passenger seats on the curb side.

While a trolley car, by definition, is an electric vehicle that gets its power from an overhead wire, the minitrolleys were originally created by the Royal Coach Co., in the Tri-County Business Park on Racetrack Road, Oldsmar.

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known to have built limousines and convertible conversions during the 1980s

 

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