Training or educational film showing operation of wheelchair lift on bus. Shows Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines motor coach. Demonstrates loading and unloading passengers in wheelchairs and lift operation. Photographer notes that the bus depicted is "one of twenty-five that we are going to receive." Most likely the bus is a Grumman-Flxible bus model 870, which Muni purchased twenty-five of in 1980. Also footage of AC Transit GMC coach equipped with wheelchair lift. Unknown producer. Likely shot by San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) training department staff in the late 1970s in Long Beach, California. The Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines is now called Santa Monica Big Blue Bus.
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