Marshall Bus

Marshall Bus

First Beeline Marshall Capital bodied Dennis Dart in Slough
Defunct	2002
Headquarters	Cambridge
Products	Bus and coach bodywork

Marshall Bus was an English builder of bus and coach bodywork based in Cambridge.

History

Mayne Coaches Camair 80 bodied Dennis Falcon

First Chester & The Wirral C37 bodied Dennis Dart in Bromborough in March 2007

Marshall Bus was a bodybuilder that during the 1960s built many buses for British Electric Traction. It ceased manufacturing in the early 1980s.

In January 1992, it re-entered the bus bodying industry after purchasing the rights to the Duple Dartline from Carlyle Works,

The company's most popular product was the Marshall Capital, which was a single-decker bus body built between 1997 and 2003. It was typically built on the Dennis Dart SLF chassis, but was also used for other chassis types and to re-body older chassis. In 2001/02, Marshall rebuilt a number of AEC Routemasters for Transport for London.

In 2002, Marshall went into administration and shortly after closed. Thereafter, MCV Bus & Coach bought the design rights for the Capital body and they continued production for a short while before its successor MCV Stirling was introduced. All proceeds from the sale went to the heir of the initial designer, Andrea Marshall.

Products

• Camair 80
• C16/C19 (from Carlyle)
• Dartline (C27, from Duple/Carlyle)
• C29 (from Carlyle)
• C31
• C32/C33
• C35/C36/C37
• C39 Capital
• C43
• Marshall Minibus (actually a low-floor midibus)

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