7-398: 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
14-483: A length of up to 12 m (39 ft 4 in), although some exceptions of longer buses exist. They also typically weigh between 11 and 14 t (12 and 15 short tons). In regions where double-deckers are not common, the term single-decker may lack common usage, as in one sense, all other main types of bus have a single deck. Also, the term may become synonymous with the name transit bus or related terms, which can correctly be applied to double-deckers too. With
21-513: 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 A single-decker bus or single-decker
28-423: Is a bus that has a single deck for passengers . Normally the use of the term single-decker refers to a standard two- axled rigid bus , in direct contrast to the use of the term double-decker bus , which is essentially a bus with two passenger decks and a staircase. These types of single-deckers may feature one or more doors, and varying internal combustion engine positions. The majority of single-deckers have
35-474: 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 It was superseded as a step-entrance body by the Flyte , starting in 1996 and stopped production in 2001.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
42-894: The exception of regions of major double deck or articulated bus operation, usually major urban areas such as Hong Kong , cities in the United Kingdom and Singapore , the single decker is the standard mode of public transport bus travel, increasingly with low floor features. With their origins in van chassis, minibuses are not usually considered single-deckers , although modern minibus designs blur this distinction. Midibuses can also be regarded as both included with and separate from standard single-deckers, in terms of full size length and vehicle weights, although again design developments have seen this distinction blurred. Some coach style buses that do not have underfloor luggage space can also be correctly termed as single-deckers, with some sharing standard bus chassis designs, such as
49-399: 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
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