East Lancs Spryte

Low floor bus body on Dennis Dart SLF and Volvo chassis

Motor vehicle
East Lancs Spryte
First Somerset & Avon East Lancs Spryte bodied Dennis Dart SLF in Yeovil in February 2013
Overview
ManufacturerEast Lancashire Coachbuilders
Production1996-2001
Body and chassis
Doors1 or 2
Floor typeLow entry
ChassisDennis Dart SLF
Volvo B6LE
Volvo B6BLE
Powertrain
Capacity29 to 47 seated[1]
Dimensions
Length9,500–11,470 millimetres (374–452 in)
Width2,475 millimetres (97.4 in)
Height2,750 millimetres (108 in)
Chronology
SuccessorEast Lancs Myllennium
Yellow Buses East Lancs Spryte bodied Dennis Dart SLF in Bournemouth, Dorset

The East Lancs Spryte was a low floor single-decker bus body built by East Lancashire Coachbuilders. It was designed to body the Dennis Dart SLF chassis, but a handful have been built on others, for example, the Volvo B6LE. Mechanically and visually, it is the single-decker version of the East Lancs Lolyne.

It has a double-curvature windscreen with a separately mounted destination display[1] and an arched top with a rounded roof dome similar to the Flyte as commonly seen on these buses in the United Kingdom. Like the Lolyne, it continued the line of deliberately misspelt names of East Lancs products. But unlike the Lolyne, which survived through the Myllennium-series as the Myllennium Lolyne, the Spryte did not. Instead, it was replaced by the single-decker Myllennium, sometimes called by its unofficial name, the Myllennium Spryte.

See also

  • Buses portal

References

  1. ^ a b "Spryte body specification". Blackburn: East Lancashire Coachbuilders. Archived from the original on 19 August 2002. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
  • Media related to East Lancs Spryte at Wikimedia Commons
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Former products
Single-decker buses
Step Entrance Buses
Low Floor Buses
Double-decker buses
Step Entrance Buses
Low Floor Buses
See also
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