East Lancashire Coachbuilders

East Lancashire Coachbuilders Limited was a builder of bus bodies founded in 1934 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England.

East Lancashire Coachbuilders Ltd.
Company typePrivate
IndustryBus building
Founded27 October 1934 (1934-10-27)[1]
FounderWalter Smith
DefunctMarch 1, 2010 (2010-03-01)
FateDissolved after parent company Darwen Group performed a reverse takeover
SuccessorOptare
HeadquartersBlackburn, Lancashire, England
ProductsBus bodies
Websitewww.elcb.co.uk
East Lancs Olympus, one of the last East Lancs badged products, this one run by Metroline
1987 East Lancs body on Scania K92 chassis
Lolyne run by Transdev Yellow Buses
Myllennium Vyking owned by Wilts & Dorset
Scania OmniDekka in London, run by Transdev London
The only Kinetec+ built, run by Reading Buses

History

On 17 August 2007, the company went into administration, but was saved and bought out by the Darwen Group. The new company was called Darwen East Lancs.

In 2008, Darwen East Lancs was purchased by Optare.

East Lancs bodies stopped being built and the factory in Blackburn closed in 2012.

Products

Past

East Lancs had many different types of bodywork. They deliberately misspelled names, replacing the letter i with a letter y.

East Lancs (1934–2007)
Single-decker
  • Myllennium for DAF SB220, MAN 14.220, Scania N94UB and Alexander Dennis Dart
  • Hyline, a high-floor variant of the standard Myllennium single-decker body but used to re-body older chassis
Double-decker
Single-decker
  • Spryte for Dennis Dart and Volvo B6BLE chassis
  • Flyte for longer step-entrance and high-floor buses.

Darwen Darwen East Lancs (2007–2008)
Single-decker
Double-decker
  • OmniDekka for Scania N94UD/N230UD/N270UD chassis

Optare (2008–2012)
Single-decker
Double-decker

Kinetec series

The Kinetec was made in 2006. They are low-floor bodies for MAN chassis. They have the Esteem/Olympus body but with MAN's own Lion's City design front and rear.

References
  1. "EAST LANCASHIRE COACHBUILDERS LIMITED - Overview (free company information from Companies House)". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.

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