East Lancs Spryte
Low floor bus body on Dennis Dart SLF and Volvo chassis
The East Lancs Spryte was a single-decker body of a bus, It had a low-floor, It was built from 1996 to 2001 by East Lancashire Coachbuilders.
| East Lancs Spryte | |
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_First_in_Yeovil_(8483108344).jpg) A First Somerset & Avon Dennis Dart SLF with East Lancs Spryte bodywork in 2013 | |
| Overview | |
| Manufacturer | East Lancashire Coachbuilders |
| Production | 1996-2001 |
| Body and chassis | |
| Doors | 1 or 2 |
| Floor type | Low entry |
| Chassis | Dennis Dart SLF Volvo B6LE Volvo B6BLE |
| Powertrain | |
| Capacity | 29 to 47 seated[1] |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 9500mm to 11470mm[1] |
| Width | 2475mm[1] |
| Height | 2750mm[1] |
| Chronology | |
| Successor | East Lancs Myllennium |
It was built on the Dennis Dart SLF chassis,[2] Volvo B6LE chassis[3] and Volvo B6BLE chassis.[4]
Some Sprytes were builded as buses and some were custom-made into incident command units and exhibition buses.
East Lancs misspelled bus names on purpose (naming it "Spryte" instead of "Sprite").
In 1999 it was replaced by the single-decker Myllennium.
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Dennis Dart SLF with East Lancs Spryte bodywork used as a incident command unit -
Dennis Dart SLF with East Lancs Spryte bodywork used as a West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive Network West Midlands exhibition bus -
Dennis Dart SLF with East Lancs Spryte bodywork with double doors (doors in the middle)
_2002_Transbus_Dart_East_Lancs_Spryte,_Solihull,_28_June_2011_(1).jpg)
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "SPRYTE Body Specification". East Lancs Coachbuilders. Archived from the original on 19 August 2002.
- ↑ Barrow, David (2021). East Lancashire Coachbuilders. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-3981-0228-6. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
- ↑ Beddall, David (15 October 2023). London's Low-floor Buses in Exile. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-3981-0649-9.
- ↑ Beddall, David (2020). London's Low-floor Buses. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-3981-0120-3. Retrieved 9 June 2023.
Other websites
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Media related to East Lancs Spryte at Wikimedia Commons- East Lancs Spryte/Flyte images on Flickr
