Dennis Lancet
Dennis Lancet | |
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Alexander bodied Dennis Lancet | |
Overview | |
Manufacturer | Dennis |
Production | 1981-91 |
Body and chassis | |
Floor type | Step entrance |
Powertrain | |
Engine | Perkins T6.354 ,V8 540 (Leyland 402, 411) |
Transmission | Allison AT545 |
Chronology | |
Successor | Dennis Javelin |
The Dennis Lancet was a lightweight underfloor-engined chassis manufactured by Dennis during the 1980s.
The Lancet nameplate was previously carried by a front-engined chassis, and later, in the 1950s and early 1960s, to the underfloor-engined Lancet UF.
History
The Lancet was launched in 1981.[1][2] It was mainly used as the basis of a bus or coach, although some were bodied for other uses, mainly as mobile libraries.
At a time before the advent of low floor buses, when wheelchair access required the fitment of a chairlift, a few bus operators and councils bought Dennis Lancets with this feature. Leicester Citybus and West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive had three and two respectively with Duple Dominant Bus bodywork.[3]
Other UK customers for the Lancet included Tillingbourne Bus Company, Merseyside PTE (with ten, the largest British fleet), Northern Scottish, Blackpool Transport, Portsmouth, Merthyr Tydfil and Taff-Ely.
Around 87 chassis were built. Nearly a third of them were exported, to Bermuda and South Africa.[4][5] The Lancet was replaced by the Dennis Javelin.
References
External links
- Media related to Dennis Lancet at Wikimedia Commons
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