100 Phantom body-chassis shells to King County Metro Transit. Gillig shipped these Phantom buses in fairly complete form, including interior fittings such as seats—lacking only propulsion equipment including trolleypoles. Meanwhile, transit agency removed the propulsion system (GE traction motor, Randtronics chopper control, and electronic card cage) from its old fleet of 1979-built AM General trolley coaches which the Gillig vehicles were purchased to replace, and shipped them to Alstom for refurbishment. After Alstom refurbished the propulsion system, Metro installed the equipment into the new Gillig Phantom bodies, along with Kiepe pneumatically operated fiberglass trolley poles. Between 2014 and 2020, Kiepe partnered with Gillig to produce new dual-mode trolleybuses for the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority. Gillig shipped four BRTPlus body-chassis shells to Kiepe to build prototype coaches, two of which function as battery electric buses while away from electrical wires and two of which use a diesel generator. Two of these prototypes were equipped with diesel-powered generators to power the traction motors off-wire (similar to a hybrid bus) and two use batteries for off-wire operations. After successful testing, Dayton ordered 41 production battery-electric trolleys from Kiepe and Gillig. Products VIN Gillig uses the following vehicle identification number (VIN) scheme: References Gillig, LLC, gillig.com, retrieved on 2006-12-25 Transit Coach / Pacific SchoolCoach Online Museum, gilligcoaches.net, retrieved on 2006-12-25, archived from the original at http://www.gilligcoaches.net/ archive date: 2006-12-30 Leo Gillig Automobile Works – Gillig Brothers, coachbuilt.com, retrieved on 2006-12-25 A Brief History of Hall-Scott, northern.edu, retrieved on 2006-12-26 GM Brings Clean Mass Transit to Environmental Conference, allisontransmission.com, retrieved on 2006-12-25 Stauss, Ed (1988). The Bus World Encyclopedia of Buses, Woodland Hills, CA: Stauss Publications. Notes External links Gillig, LLC website Motor vehicle manufacturers based in California Hybrid electric bus manufacturers School bus manufacturers Companies based in Hayward, California Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1890 1890 establishments in California Private equity portfolio companies Privately held companies based in California Companies based in Livermore, California