Marshall Bus

Marshall Bus
Defunct 2002
Headquarters Cambridge
Products Bus and coach bodywork

Marshall Bus[1] was an English builder of bus and coach bodywork based in Cambridge.

History

Mayne Coaches Camair 80 bodied Dennis Falcon
First Chester & The Wirral C37 bodied Dennis Dart in Bromborough in March 2007

Marshall Bus was a bodybuilder that during the 1960s built many buses for British Electric Traction.[2][3][4][5] It ceased manufacturing in the early 1980s.[6][7]

In January 1992, it re-entered the bus bodying industry after purchasing the rights to the Duple Dartline from Carlyle Works,[8]

The company's most popular product was the Marshall Capital, which was a single-decker bus body built between 1997 and 2003. It was typically built on the Dennis Dart SLF chassis, but was also used for other chassis types and to re-body older chassis. In 2001/02, Marshall rebuilt a number of AEC Routemasters for Transport for London.

In 2002, Marshall went into administration and shortly after closed. Thereafter, MCV Bus & Coach bought the design rights for the Capital body and they continued production for a short while before its successor MCV Stirling was introduced. All proceeds from the sale went to the heir of the initial designer, Andrea Marshall.

Products

References

  1. ↑ Companies House extract company no 245740 Marshall of Cambridge Aerospace Limited formerly Marshall of Cambridge (Engineering) Limited
  2. ↑ Bodybuilders' Agreement Commercial Motor 6 November 1959
  3. ↑ Large Orders for Marshall Commercial Motor 16 July 1965
  4. ↑ More Bus Bodies from Marshall Commercial Motor 1 April 1966
  5. ↑ Marshall scoops the BET bus order pool Commercial Motor 28 June 1968
  6. ↑ Marshalls on the road again Commercial Motor 23 April 1982
  7. ↑ History Marshall Group
  8. ↑ Marshalls snaps up rights to Dart Commercial Motor 16 January 1992

External links

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