Title: Fondy Area Bus Cooperative Records
Inclusive Dates: 1968-1978

Creator:

• Fondy Area Bus Cooperative (Fond du Lac, Wis.)

Call Number: Oshkosh Mss CJ

Quantity: 0.9 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 1 oversize box)

Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Polk Library, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Oshkosh Polk Library / Oshkosh Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Records of the first cooperatively owned bus company in the United States, which provided public transportation in Fond du Lac, Wis. and surrounding areas from 1968 to 1973. The non-profit business restored bus service to the area following the demise of the privately-owned Fond du Lac Bus Company, and was a pioneering attempt to solve through a cooperative model the financial difficulties typical of urban transportation systems. Included are articles of incorporation and bylaws, minutes of annual and board of directors' meetings, correspondence, annual and monthly reports to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, information about buses and bus schedules, financial records, promotional materials, shareholder records, materials concerning its 1973 sale to the City of Fond du Lac, and records of final dissolution and shareholder monetary distributions.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-osh00cj

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Acquisition Information

Presented by the Fondy Area Bus Cooperative via Margaret Peterson, Fond du Lac, Wis., 1979. Accession Number: M79-401

Processing Information

Processed by Gayle Martinson, December 1998.

Box   1 Folder   1	Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws
Box   1 Folder   2	Background and Historical Materials
Box   1 Folder   3	Bus Schedules
Box   1 Folder   4	Buses and the Division of Motor Vehicles
Box   1 Folder   5	Certification with Public Service Commission
Box   1 Folder   6	Contracts
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   7	1968-1973
Box   1 Folder   8	With City Officials, 1968-1973
Box   1 Folder   9	With Public Service Commission, 1968-1973
	Financial
Box   3	Ledger (volume), 1968-1973
Box   1 Folder   10-11	Materials, 1968-1974
Box   1 Folder   12	Information on Cooperatives
	Minutes
Box   1 Folder   13	Annual Meetings and President's Reports, 1968-1971
Box   1 Folder   14	Board of Directors' Meetings, 1968-1974
Box   1 Folder   15	Promotional and Publicity Materials
	Reports
Box   2 Folder   1	Annual Reports to Public Service Commission, 1968-1971
Box   2 Folder   2	Monthly Reports to Public Service Commission, 1968-1973
Box   2 Folder   3	Sale of Co-op to City of Fond du Lac, 1972-1973
Box   2 Folder   4	Dissolution and Shareholders' Financial Distribution, 1971-1978
Box   2 Folder   5	Shareholders