The school bus yellow paint was shining brightly on this new 1973 Wayne Lifeguard school bus won in a national contest for safety ideas. The bus is shown being presented to the winning driver from Goochland County Public Schools at the Virginia State Capitol

School bus yellow is a color which was especially formulated for use on United States school buses in 1939. The color is now officially known in the U.S. as National School Bus Glossy Yellow and was originally called National School Bus Chrome. 1973 Wayne Lifeguard School Bus at Virginia State Capitol This work is copyrighted. ... 1973 Wayne Lifeguard School Bus at Virginia State Capitol This work is copyrighted. ... advertisement for 1973 Wayne Lifeguard School Bus on Ford chassis Wayne Corporation was a large manufacturer of buses branded with the tradename Wayne. ... A new 1973 Wayne Lifeguard school bus won in national contest for safety ideas is presented to winning driver from Goochland County Public Schools by Wayne dealer Jeff Davis at Virginia State Capitol A school bus is a specially built, painted and equipped bus used to transport schoolgirls and boys... Goochland County is a county located in the state of Virginia. ... Virginia State Capitol Building at Richmond, Virginia Virginia State Capitol is a building in Richmond, the city which is the third State Capital of Virginia. ... Colour is an important part of the visual arts. ... A new 1973 Wayne Lifeguard school bus won in national contest for safety ideas is presented to winning driver from Goochland County Public Schools by Wayne dealer Jeff Davis at Virginia State Capitol A school bus is a specially built, painted and equipped bus used to transport schoolgirls and boys... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... ...

In April of that year, Dr. Frank W. Cyr, a professor at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York organized a conference that established national school-bus construction standards, including the standard color of yellow for the school bus. It became known officially as "National School Bus Chrome." The color was selected because black lettering on that hue was easiest to see in the semi-darkness of early morning and late afternoon. Frank W. Cyr (July 7, 1900 - August 1, 1995) was an American educator and author, a specialist in rural education who became known as the Father of the Yellow School Bus. ... Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ... The term conference can be used to describe any meeting of people that confer about a certain topic. ... Yellow is the color of light with a wavelength between 565 nm and 590 nm. ... Black is a color with several subtle differences in meaning. ...

The conference met for seven days and the attendees created a total of 44 standards, including specifications regarding body length, ceiling height and aisle width. Paint experts from DuPont and Pittsburgh Paint participated. Dr. Cyr's conference, funded by a $5,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, was also a landmark event inasmuch as it included transportation officials from each of the then 48 states, as well as specialists from school-bus manufacturing and paint companies. The color was adopted by the National Bureau of Standards (Now the National Institute of Standards and Technology) as Federal Standard No. 595a, Color 13432. This article is about the DuPont company. ... Grant is a family name, and also the name of places and things monetary aid, see Grant (money) Federal grant for U.S. government grants. ... The Rockefeller Foundation is a charitable organization that operates out of New York City. ... The National Institute of Standards and Technology (or NIST) formerly known as The National Bureau of Standards is a non regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce’s Technology Administration. ...

The conference approach to school bus safety, as well as the yellow color, has endured into the 21st century. Dr. Cyr became well-known as the "Father of the Yellow School Bus." The following alphabetical lists includes men and women commonly known as the father or mother of something. ...

Hex Codes

Of course, buses are not painted on computer screens or printed through color printing processes. For these, in modern times hex codes are used. Most computer monitors are not calibrated for accurate color reproduction, so any color specification can only be approximate. The approximate color of National School Bus Yellow in hex is #FFD800 and in RGB (255, 216, 0) (seen to the right). Another hex code considered to be correct by many is #FFCC00, which may be useful because it is a web-safe color. However, #FFCC00 is also associated with the color Tangerine. Authors of web pages have a variety of options available for specifying colors for elements of web documents. ... Authors of web pages have a variety of options available for specifying colors for elements of web documents. ... Tangerine, also known as light orange is a tinted orange color that resembles the color of tangerines. ...

See also

• school bus (main article)
• Safety orange

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External links

• Highway Safety Program Guidelines on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website
• Frank Cyr, Father of the Yellow School Bus
• STN 100 Years of the School Bus