EAST LANCS Lancashire Coachbuilders England
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Industry |
Bus building |
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Founded |
1934 |
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Headquarters |
Blackburn, Lancashire, England |
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Products |
Bus bodies |
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Website |
www.elcb.co.uk |
East Lancs Olympus Metroline SEL762 LK07 BCZ
An East Lancs Olympus, one of the last East Lancs badged products, this one run by Metroline.
A 1987 high capacity East Lancs body on Scania K92 chassis: one of the last built to this flat-fronted style.
A Lolyne run by Transdev Yellow Buses.
East Lancashire Coachbuilders Limited was a manufacturer of bus bodies and carriages founded in 1934 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
In 1994 the company expanded in to new premises and commenced a programme of development that resulted in a range of single and double deck buses which was the primary source of income for the company.
On August 17, 2007 the company went into administration, but was saved and bought out by the Darwen Group the next day. It is thought that the problem was a direct consequence of changing to the Euro 4 chassis, with a shortage of Scania chassis being a factor.[1] After the purchase, the Darwen Group rebranded the company as Darwen East Lancs.
In 2008 Jamesstan Investments, an investment company controlled by the Darwen Group purchased another bus manufacturer Optare. Later, in June 2008, a reverse takeover was performed, with the Darwen name disappearing in favour of Optare’s. This brings East Lancs name into the Optare Group, now providing an expanded range of vehicles.
East Lancs has had many different styles of bodywork. They had a tradition of using misspelt product names which continues until the Esteem and Olympus series.Past
Older past bodies
Leyland East Lancs Greenway
East Lancs EL2000 body on Dennis Dart.
East Lancs Flyte body on Scania K112 chassis
EL2000 predecessor to the Flyte
Cytizen ^ predecessor to
the OmniDekka ^
Pyoneer ^ predecessor
to the Lolyne ^
a 42 seat East Lancs Spryte body on its Dennis Dart chassis
Lolyne and Spryte series
In the early 1990s, East Lancs created a new style of bus body. Like most East Lancs buses, this body style didn’t have a definite name and was named by its chassis as follows:
Double-Decker
Lolyne for Dennis Trident
Vyking for Volvo B7TL
Nordic for 3-axle Volvo B7L/B9TL
Single-Decker
Spryte for Dennis Dart and Volvo B6BLE chassis
Flyte for longer step-entrance and high-floor buses.
Myllennium series
An Myllennium Vyking owned by Wilts & Dorset.
In 2001, a new body was launched. Again, the product didn’t have a definite name, it varied according to the chassis.
Double-Decker
Myllennium Lolyne for Dennis Trident
Myllennium Vyking Transdev Yellow Buses
Myllennium Lowlander for DAF/VDL DB250LF
Nordic for 3-axle Volvo B7L/Volvo B9TL
Single-Decker
Myllennium for DAF SB220, MAN 14.220, Scania N94UB and Alexander Dennis Dart
Hyline, a high-floor variant of the standard Myllennium single-decker body but used to re-body older chassis
Until bought by Darwen
The generation until East Lancs went into administration continues the tradition of misspelt names but each has a different name and does not vary on the chassis.
Scania series
A Scania OmniDekka in London, run by Transdev London.
A Reading Transport Olympus, an example bodied by Darwen Group
The first Olympus built, run by Delaine Buses.
This series are the last surviving variants of the myllennium series. They are now part of their own series. These have the standard body but with Scania own front styling.
Single-Decker
OmniTown for Scania N94UB chassis
Double-Decker
OmniDekka for Scania N94UD/N230UD/N270UD chassis
Esteem and Olympus series
The Esteem was launched early in 2006. The Olympus was launched at the Euro Bus Expo 2006 and its lower dash is the same as the Esteem. The Visionaire launched in summer 2007 with Arriva’s Original London Sightseeing Tour.
Single-Decker
Esteem for Alexander Dennis Enviro200 Dart, MAN 12.240, Scania N94UB and Alexander Dennis Enviro300 chassis
Double-Decker
Olympus for Alexander Dennis Enviro400, VDL DB250, Volvo B9TL and Scania N230UD chassis
Visionaire open-top body for Volvo B9TL chassis
Production of these buses continued under Darwen ownership.
Kinetec series
The only Kinetec+ built, run by Reading Buses.
The Kinetec series was launched at the Euro Bus Expo 2006. They are designed as low-floor bodies for MAN chassis. They have the Esteem/Olympus body but with MAN’s own Lion’s City design front and rear.
EAST LANCS subsidiaries
East Lancs also ran sub-divisions of the company, in addition to the production of buses:
East Lancs Overseas – The export of East Lancs buses
NW Bus & Coach Repairs – A bus and coach repairs business in the North West of England
1939 Bristol L5G rebodied 1952 East Lancs B35R
1946 Karrier W with modern East Lancs body
1946 Karrier W with modern East Lancs body dating from 1957
1946 Karrier W with modern East Lancs body
1948 BUT 9641T East Lancs H67R at Victoria Park
1948 BUT 9641T East Lancs H67R in Mill Lane
1948 Sunbeam F4 with modern East Lancs Body
1948 Sunbeam F4 with modern East Lancs Body
1949 BUT 9641T East Lancs Bruce H67R Llandaff Fields terminus
1949 BUT 9641T East Lancs H67R at Roath Park
1949 BUT 9641T East Lancs H67R in St Mary Street
1949 Crossley DD42-7 Scottish Commercial L53R + 316 MUH316 1956 Guy Arab IV East Lancs H63R leaving Central Bus Station
1950 AEC Regal III East Lancs Edward J Busst
1950 Dennis Lance III East Lancs L51R and 345 SOU453 1958 Dennis Loline I East Lancs H68RD at Alton Station
1951 Leyland PD2-1 East Lancs FL53RD originally Ribble 1247 in Drummer Street
1953 East Lancs UK
1953 Guy Arab LUF East Lancs B41R Hindhead Garage
1953 Leyland Royal Tiger PSU1-13 East Lancs B41F
1954 Daimler CVD6 East Lancs H56R in Stalybridge
1955 BUT 9641T East Lancs H70R in Havelock Street
1956 AEC 2D3RA East Lancs H63R Cardiff Central Bus Station
1957 Bradford 792 was an ex Darlington Karrier W of 1944 rebodied for Bradford by East Lancs in 1957
1958 Guy Arab IV East Lancs H63R
1959 ex-Darlington Karrier W(1945) carrying a new Double Deck East Lancs body dating from 1959
1959 Leyland Tiger Cub East Lancs Edward J Busst
1959 Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1 1 East Lancs BxxF AndrewHA’s foto
1960 Dennis Loline II East Lancs H63F in Henley
1960 Guy Wulfrunian East Lancs H72F
1961 Dennis Loline II East Lancs H63F
1963 East Lancs UK
1963 ex-Mexborough & Swinton Sunbeam F4 dating from 1951 and carrying a modern East Lancs Body dating from 1963
1964 AEC Renown 3B3RA with East Lancs H72F body new in 1964
1964 Dennis Loline III East Lancs H68F
1966 East Lancs Leyland Malta
1966 East Lancs UK
1967 Daimler Roadliner SRC6 East Lancs B45D Royal Parade
1967 Leyland PD2A-30 East Lancs H60R in Terminus Road
1968 Leyland Panther Cub East Lancs Edward J Busst
1969 East Lancs-bodied Leyland Titan
1969 Leyland Leopard East Lancs Edward J Busst
1970 Leyland Leopard East Lancs Edward J Busst
1972 East Lancs bodied Leyland Leopard, number 68 in the Rossendale Fleet
1972 Seddon Pennine RU East Lancs Edward J Busst
1973 Leyland Leopard East Lancs Edward J Busst
1975 East Lancs-bodied Bristol RESL
1976 Bristol RESL East Lancs Edward J Busst
1976 Bristol RESL East Lancs Edward J Busst
1979 Leyland Leopard East Lancs Edward J Busst
1981 East Lancs bodied Dennis Falcon HC’s Bryan A Smith
1982 East Lancs UK
1983 Dennis Falcon HC East Lancs Edwar J Busst
1984 East Lancs 1984-style double-deck body
1985 Leyland Olympian East Lancs Edward J Busst
1985 Volvo Citybus East Lancs Edward J Busst
1986 Leyland Olympian East Lancs Edward J Busst
1987 high capacity East Lancs body on Scania K92 chassis
1987 Leyland Olympian East Lancs Edward J Busst
1989 Leyland Tiger East Lancs 2000 Edward J Busst
1989 Scania N112DR East Lancs Edward J Busst
1991 East Lancs bodied Dennis Lances L706 HFU Bryan A Smith
1991 Leyland National East Lancs Greenway Edward J Busst
1991 Volvo B10M-55 East Lancs 2000 Edward J Busst
1992 Volvo B10M-50 East Lancs 2000 Edward J Busst
1994 Dennis Dart East Lancs 2000 Edward J Busst
1994 East Lancs EL2000 UK
1996 East Lancs Cityzen Kings Ferry Volvo B10
1996 East Lancs Spryte UK
1996 Scania N113 East Lancs Cityzen Edward J Busst
1996 Scania N113DRB East Lancs Edward J Busst
1996 Scania N113DRB East Lancs Cityzen Edward J Busst
1997 Dennis Dart SLF East Lancs Spryte Edward J Busst
1997 East Lancs Lolyne UK
1998 East Lancs Cityzen UK
2001 Dennis Trident East Lancs Thomas de Laine
2001 Dennis Falcon HC SDA442 . – East Lancs EL2000 B48F
2002 East Lancs Myllennium Spryte bodied Transbus Dart SLF 49
2002 Volvo B7TL East Lancs Myllennium Vyking Edward J Busst
2002 Volvo B7TL East Lancs Myllennium Vyking Edward J Busst
2003 Dennis Trident East Lancs Lolyne Edward J Busst
2003 East Lancs Vyking
2004 East Lancs OmniTown UK
2005 East Lancs Greenway Leyland National Greenway nearside
2006 East Lancs Nordic Weavaway Travel
2007 East Lancs Esteem UK
2007 EAST LANCS KINETIC MAN Reading Transport 501
2007 East Lancs Myllennium UK
2007 Scania East Lancs Edward J Busst
2008 East Lancs Olympus UK
2008 East Lancs Visionaire UK
2008 Volvo B7RLE Optare Esteem (East Lancs) Edward J Busst
2008 Volvo B9TL Optare Olympus (East lancs) Edward J Busst
AEC Regent III East Lancs
Blue Bus East Lancs EL2000 bodied Leyland Leopard SCH 150 X
Bristol RESL6L East Lancs
Dennis Dart East Lancs EL2000 N465TPR Yellow Buses on Route 18
EAST LANC COACHBUILDERS LTD
East Lancs bodied Bristol RESL6L Bryan A Smith
East Lancs bodied Leyland Leopard with OK Travel Bryan A Smith.
East Lancs bodied Leyland Leopard Bryan A Smith
East Lancs bodied Leyland Tiger Cub Bryan A Smith
EAST LANCS Bus Drawing
Ex NCT 555 Leyland Atlantean East Lancs Sprint
First Leicester Dennis Falcon East Lancs
Leicester AEC Renown FJF 40D, East Lancs body
Leyland Leopard PSU3C 2R – East Lancs . B51F
Leyland Titan PD2 East Lancs POU 494
Leyland Titan PD2A-24 East Lancs
Wilson’s East Lancs bodied Bristol RESL OCW 454 P. Ian R Simpson.
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