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Motor vehicle
Dennis Dorchester
Overview
Manufacturer
Dennis
Production
1983-88
Assembly
Guildford
Body and chassis
Floor type
Step entrance
Powertrain
Engine
Gardner 6HLXCT
The Dennis Dorchester was a mid-engined heavy-duty single deck coach chassis manufactured by Dennis in small numbers between 1983 and 1988.[1][2] Designed as a premium underfloor mid-engine coach chassis, it was unveiled at the 1982 Motor Show. It was aimed at operators who had purchased the Seddon Pennine 7.[3]
Of the 67 built, 44 were bought by Scottish Bus Group subsidiaries Western Scottish, Central Scottish and Clydeside Scottish. These consisted of 23 with Plaxton Paramount coach bodywork, and 21 with Alexander bodywork, with each of the three T-type variants represented — five each of the TS service bus and TE express semi-coach, and eleven of the TC full coach.[4] One was exported to South Africa.[3][5]
Leicester City Transport bought three Dorchester coaches with Plaxton Paramount bodywork, but sold them fairly quickly to Kingston-upon-Hull City Transport, which also bought one new. South Yorkshire Transport also took on three similar vehicles.
Of the Dorchester customers in the independent sector, Geoff Amos of Northamptonshire included three high-capacity bus versions among their five examples, two with Wadham Stringer bodywork and one with Reeve Burgess bodywork, all with 71 seats. Tillingbourne Bus Company also purchased two 61-seat Wadham Stringer-bodied buses.[6]
Other body manufacturers for the Dorchester were Duple (five, including the sole export Dorchester, for South Africa), Caetano (two coaches which made up the remainder of the Amos contingent), and Berkhof (one vehicle).[7]
^Dennis heavyweight is major league contender Commercial Motor 30 July 1983
^Dennis Dorchester Bus Lists on the Web
^ abDiverted Dorchester Bus & Coach Preservation January 2018 pages 28-32
^Hestair Dennis road shows Commercial Motor 4 June 1983
^Britain's Buses V6. Key Publishing. 2021. p. 15. ISBN 978 1 802820 096.
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