The Z & M Coach Company was incorporated on August 19, 1926, by Frederick M. Zander. The company's first route, later the
Q27, started in October 1928 to connect the subway in Flushing at Main Street and Amity Street to the Rosewood section of Bayside. Zander was fined $25 twice in November for operating the route without a license. He continued operating the service despite the order to stop service until he obtained a permit for it. Rosewood residents banded together to raise money and hire the bus like a taxi to allow service to continue. The bus route was supported by the Rosewood Improvement Association and the East Flushing Civic Association. The route originally operated between Flushing and the Horace Harding Expressway, and was known as the Flushing—Rosewood route. In 1931, the
New York City Board of Estimate was deciding which bus route franchises would be given to which private operators. Along with thirty other bus routes, the Q27 was tentatively assigned to the
North Shore Bus Company, as part of Zone B (Flushing and Northern Queens). As of March 1, 1933, Z & M Coach Corporation used six buses on its Q27 route and twelve buses on its unfranchised Flushing to Queens Village route. At the time, the Q27 was not operated to its eastern terminal. ==References==