Misplaced Pages

East Lancs EL2000

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
#5994

4-398: The East Lancs EL2000 is a type of single-decker bus body built on a wide variety of bus chassis by East Lancashire Coachbuilders . The EL2000 has an aluminium frame. It has bowed sides and a bowed top half of the rear end, with a high-set rear window. There was some variability in the height and shape of the side windows, and the style of windscreen. One common design of windscreen

8-520: A new 10-leaf front and rear suspension, a new five-speed transmission and an AN68 Atlantean coach engine as well as its 47-seat single-deck body. Further rebodies and refurbishments were marketed as the 'Atlantean Sprint', with Southampton Citybus making orders for ten of its Atlanteans to be rebodied; only five of these rebodies were completed for Southampton. [REDACTED] Media related to East Lancs EL2000 at Wikimedia Commons Single-decker bus Too Many Requests If you report this error to

12-474: The end of 1989. It was superseded as a step-entrance body by the Flyte , starting in 1996 and stopped production in 2001. East Lancs first rebodied an accident-damaged Leyland Atlantean with an EL2000 body for Sheffield Omnibus in 1992, with the conversion aimed at increasing its service life. The Atlantean was stripped of its double-deck body and had its chassis lengthened to 36 ft (11 m), receiving

16-399: Was square-cornered, tapered in towards the top and curved around to the sides. Another was a two-piece flat windscreen with radiused outer corners. A third design used was a double-curvature windscreen with an arched top. Many different chassis types, both new and secondhand, were fitted with EL2000 bodywork. These include: The EL2000 made its first appearance on rebodied Leyland Tigers at

#5994