gyrobus n.
a bus powered by a gyroscopic flywheel; (also) a flying bus
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1933 N. Schachner & R. Lacher Memory of Atoms in Wonder Stories Jan. 618/2
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Nat Schachner
R. Lacher
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A huge gyro-bus, completely enclosed, dull black in color, oblong, sinister, poised on its monorail in front of a great terraced Residential Apartment.
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1936 ‘J. Beynon’ Planet Plane v. 40
John Wyndham
Machines of every kind from the dainty flipabout to the massive gyrobus…started to float in from each quarter.
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1950 Amazing Stories Dec. 63 (title)
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Gyro-bus.
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1984 M. Bishop With a Little Help from Her Friends in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Feb. 7/2
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Michael Bishop
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The boarded an orange gyrobus in the parking lot and departed the hatchery.
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2007 A. M. Steele Galaxy Blues in Asimov’s Science Fiction Dec. 101
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Allen Steele
We're to pack up and grab the noon gyrobus to New Brighton.
Research requirements
antedating 1933
Research History
The OED entry has a single cite from John Wyndham's Planet Plane.
Imran Ghory submitted a 1950 cite from "Gyro-bus", a nonfiction piece by Milton Matthew.
Jesse Sheidlower submitted a 1933 cite from Nathan Schachner in Wonder Stories, apparently referring to a gyroscopically powered vehicle.
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