Prevost Car began building wooden bus bodies in 1927, but by late 1943 (where my data starts) had switched to aluminum construction. (The few wooden and steel bodies built after this date are marked in the notes.) The first complete bus to be built entirely by Prevost was delivered to Madawaska Bus Line Limited in Nova Scotia in 1947, and by 1950 the company had essentially stopped building bodies only (although a new Prevost custom motor home coach body on an extended-wheelbase Kenworth conventional chasis was spotted in 1998.)

Until 1951 very few Prevosts were sold outside of the province of Québec, but the company's products are now found throughout Canada and the United States because of their willingness to accept small orders and to construct specialty vehicles (including motor home shells for finishing by other companies).

Prevost-built bodies were assigned a single number that was, naturally enough, its serial number. When Prevost began building its own chasis, too, the chasis' serial number was added ahead of the body number, with a "P" prefix. Buses built on other manufacturers' chasis then had serial numbers that started with "PD" (Dodge), "PF" or "PFD" (Ford), "PGM" or "PGMC" (General Motors), "PIH" (International), "PV" (miscellaneous van), or "P00" (other). (The last Prevost coach built on another manufacturers' chasis was manufactured in 1972.)

In 1974 the company decided to drop the chasis number (which was irrelevant to a unibody vehicle, anyway), replacing it with a model designation instead. The letter indicated the model type ( "C" for Champion, "P" for Prestige, and "M" for motor home), while the number designated the length ("100" for 40-foot vehicles and "500" for 35-foot ones). The number 100 was changed to 102 in early 1976, but this does not specify a 102" wide bus. When LeMirage production started in May, 1977, they received the prefix "LM103" (although the prototype carries serial P103-2409-77). The last bus constructed before the introduction of 17-digit Vehicle Identification Numbers was LM103-2854-80.

Serials 1000 to 1238 were assigned at the same time as 536 to 2100. Gaps exist between serials 272 and 399, 1239 and 1999, and 2102 to 2150. A few numbers were assigned twice.

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Delivery List

Part 1 100-271 400-495	Part 2 496-765	Part 3 766-1035	Part 4 1036-1238 2001-2070	Part 5 2071-2100 2151-2390	Part 6 2391-2660	Part 7 2661-2854	Part 8 B1001855- B1001119	Part 9 B1001120- C1001384	Part 10 C1001385- C1001612
							An explanation of Vehicle Identification Number codes

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