 Mr. Jose I. Hernandez, a pre-war mechanic, had collected bits and pieces of machinery, metals and spare parts from abandoned U.S. Military vehicles intending to build a delivery truck from scratch for his family's buy-and-sell business of rice, corn, vegetables and their home-made laundry soap.Upon completion of the truck, he was surprised to see that what he envisioned to be a delivery truck turned out to be more like a bus.On October 15, 1945, Mr. Hernandez's first bus plied the Manila-Olongapo-Manila line.