West Midlands Travel Handybus bodied Dennis Dart in 1995 with flat driver's windscreen
Overview
Manufacturer
Wrightbus
Production
1990 - 1995
Assembly
Ballymena, Northern Ireland
Body and chassis
Doors
1
Floor type
Step entrance
Chassis
Dennis Dart Leyland Swift
Powertrain
Engine
Cummins B Series (Dennis Dart)
Capacity
29 to 37 seated
Dimensions
Length
8.5 m (27 ft 11 in), 9 m (29 ft 6 in) and 9.8 m (32 ft 2 in)
Width
2.52 m (8 ft 3 in)
Height
3.02 m (9 ft 11 in)
Chronology
Successor
Wright Crusader
Arriva Scotland West Handybus bodied Dennis Dart in Glasgow in April 2008 with raked driver's windscreen
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 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.[1][2][3] Go-Ahead Northern also bought over 80, and Ulsterbus and Citybus had 40 between them.[4] The Handybus was succeeded in 1995 by the Crusader.
^Wright midi boosts jobs Commercial Motor 1 November 1990
^Gold Arrow remembered at LBM heritage running day Buses issue 752 November 2017 page 10
^Dennis Dart: the first Generation Ian's Bus Stop
^Go-Ahead goes for Handybus Commercial Motor 3 October 1991
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