6-436: The Wright Handybus was a single-deck bus body built primarily on Dennis Dart chassis by Wrightbus between 1990 and 1995. It was also built on a small number of the higher-floor Leyland Swift chassis. It has a bolted aluminium structure with two windscreen styles. The outward styling was quite plain, with a flat front. Some vehicles had a single-piece flat windscreen whilst others had two, separate, flat windscreens with
12-438: 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 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,
18-508: The London Transport Museum , Acton . [REDACTED] Media related to Wright Handybus at Wikimedia Commons [REDACTED] Buses portal Single-deck bus A single-decker bus or single-decker 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
24-572: The glass on the driver's side being raked back, reminiscent of some 1950s single-decker buses and the Leyland Lynx . London Regional Transport was the first and also the largest customer, buying nearly 200 Handybus bodied Dennis Darts. Go-Ahead Northern also bought over 80, and Ulsterbus and Citybus had 40 between them. The Handybus was succeeded in 1995 by the Crusader . A former London Regional Transport Handybus has been preserved by
30-655: 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
36-495: 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 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 ,
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