This company was founded in the Canadian Manitoba in 1930 by John Coval and was formerly called Western Auto and Truck Body Works, Western Flyer Coach). Five of his employees assembled the first bus on a Chevrolet chassis. Ten years later, the first open-top pleasure buses were built. In 1948 the company changed its name to Western Flyer.

In 1954, the first trolleybus, 700E, was built at the plant. After leaving the trolleybus market, ACF-Brill, Kenworth, Marmon-Herrington, Pullman-Standart, St. Louis Car and TwinCoach "horned" have become an important field of activity for the company.

Since the 1960s, New Flyer has focused on the production of city buses. Introduced in 1978, the D901 city bus introduced the first curved windshield in the United States for better driver visibility.

In 1986, the company was bought out by Jan den Oudsen, co-owner of the family bus company Den Oudsen from the Netherlands, changed the name to the final one and introduced European technologies. Already in 1988, the first low-floor bus, the D40LF, was introduced. And ten years later, a one-time order for 6,300 vehicles puts New Flyer in the first rank of manufacturers.

In 2003, a new height was taken - an order was received for 213 hybrid buses, the largest at that time. In addition, since 2005, New Flyer has produced the largest number of trolleybuses for cities in the US and Canada; Vancouver gets 262 low-floor cars, Philadelphia gets 38 more. At the same time, interiors of all types are being renewed, and since 2008 the latest generation of Xcelsior appears.