Gillig was founded in 1890, in San Francisco, as a buggage and carriage maker. The original factory burned during the great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. Gillig rebuilt. Not long after, they began the production of early model buses, school buses and for the war effort, troop transports. After the war, Gillig continued to build school buses and added transit buses in the 1970's

Currently Gillig builds heavy duty transit buses in different lengths and in two basic models, the standard floor model called the Phantom and the newer Low Floor model. Both are very reliable, durable and economical to operate.

Gillig has produced buses for almost l00 different customers, from Alaska to Florida and in order sizes from 1 to 500 buses.

This coach was manufactured in Hayward California