Hemmings Daily: Museum of Bus Transportation members vote to merge with AACA Museum

Directors of both the Museum of Bus Transportation and that museum's host, the AACA Museum, have said that they intend to wrap up the merger of the two museums within the next few months now that members of the bus museum have voted to approve the merger plan in an effort to keep it from going bankrupt. "I hope to close the merger within 60 days of the announcement of the voting results," said John Oakman, the chair of the Museum of Bus Transportation's board of directors. That announcement came this week af [View in Browser | Subscribe]( [Hemmings Daily] Friday, July 26, 2019 [Museum of Bus Transportation members vote to merge with AACA Museum]( [Museum of Bus Transportation members vote to merge with AACA Museum]( Posted by Daniel Strohl - Directors of both the Museum of Bus Transportation and that museum's host, the AACA Museum, have said that they intend to wrap up the merger of the two museums within the next few months now that members of the bus museum have voted to approve the merger plan in an effort to keep it from going bankrupt. "I hope to close the merger within 60 days of the announcement of the voting results," said John Oakman, the chair of the Museum of Bus Transportation's board of directors. That announcement came this week af... 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