I ended up getting these seats to either trade with, cut down, or flip. If they are not worth much I will shorten them and put them in my old ratty touring car, if they are something of value then I will sell them to buy seats for my car. They are covered with a canvas type fake leather and filled with some sort of tree moss. The seats are wood framed. Someone from my last post told me that these are model T bus seats.
How would you place value on these seats?
Probably horsehair inside the cushions. Best stuff there is for upholstery filler. Good for a hundred years or more. Most modern fillers start disintegrating in less than ten years.
Are there springs inside all of those?
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
I doubt those are Model T Ford bus seat cushions.
Richard Eagle indicated they might be Yellowstone bus seat cushions - that would be a White truck, not a Model T Ford.
To me, they do not look thick enough to be automobile cushions. They might be furniture cushions.
Do those cushions have springs?
They do not have springs.
They would be of very little value.
You are not all that far away from me. I could be interested in a couple of those cushions. But they would have to be cheap. My wife made sure that I am broke, and the government has't helped much.
I do think those could be modified to fit one of my T speedsters and work very well.
The best thing would be to get them to someone that could use them in the right kind of a bus. That would be really nice. But people with early buses are quite rare. If I had any use for another project, I would almost consider building a bus around those. A lot of interesting possibilities.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
I agree with Erik J. After seeing these pictures they seem to be too thin to be a serious bus seat. Yellowstone cushions would have been slightly thicker than a T seat. Some School bus seats might have been thinner for short rides and small children.
Rich
Wayne, shoot me an email/ pm and we can talk about it.
If not a buss seat what else could they go to?