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really school buses are orange and yellow
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Is a bus yellow?
Not all buses are yellow but most school buses are yellow.
Have school buses always been yellow My uncle says his was red and blue in 1940?
Yellow became the colour for school buses in 1939, so till then and for a while after 1939 it is conceivable that buses were a different colour than yellow.
What colour is a bus in Canada?
I think school buses are yellow because not many cars are yellow so they will stand out more. School buses are painted chrome yellow for its high visibility Also because the federal safety people say it has to be. So technically yellow school buses are a federal law
What is the actual color of school buses?
Yellow with black.
What is the official name of the color of school buses?
Yellow.
Why are school buses painted yellow?
It is a federal law.
What color was school buses?
i think they are all ways yellow
Why do the school buses always painted yellow?
because they feel like it
Why the school buses are coloured yellow?
According to a New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/17/us/cooling-and-safety-trend-for-buses-white-tops.html), bus tops are painted white to help cool the interior temperature. "Painting the bus tops white dropped the interior temperature an average of 10 degrees during the summer, with as much as a 17-degree difference at peak hours. Wintertime temperatures were lower by only 3 to 4 degrees. The study also found that children behaved better on buses in cooler temperatures ..."
Which is the best explanation of why school buses are painted yellow?
Visibility and distinction. It's a highly visible colour, and it's distinct in that it is the colour associated with school buses.
Do all charter high school have school buses?
not mich and not really
Is a school bus really yellow?
School buses are painted in a variety of shades of yellow or orange. But the official color in the US is called National School Bus Glossy Yellow (CMY 1, 12, 100). It is a mixture of cadmium yellow and cadmium orange, and was renamed from National School Bus Chrome, a paint that contained chrome yellowpigment (lead II chromate).
