1935 Kenworth KHO 33 Bus

Kenworth KHO-33 was a joint production of Kenworth Motor Truck and Heiser Body Company. The Kenworth W-1 was a post-war design that entered service around 1948. The North Coast buses ended up being operated as Greyhounds and were retired in the mid-1950s.

Production of civilian trucks never entirely ceased during the war, though it was down to only 87 units in 1943. In the late 1940s it climbed to some 600 per year, and passed the 1000 mark in 1952. Conventionals and cab-overs were made, together with fire engines and a dwindling number of buses. The radiator on the conventionals had become vertical in 1940 in place of the sloping grille used since 1935, and this vertical design has been steadily developed up to the present without any radical change.