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The East Lancs Spryte was a
East Lancs Spryte/Flyte images on Flickr
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The East Lancs Spryte was a low floor
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single-decker bus
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body built by East Lancashire Coachbuilders
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. It was designed to body the Dennis Dart SLF
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chassis, but a handful have been built on others, for example, the Volvo B6LE
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History
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. Mechanically and visually, it is the single-decker version of the East Lancs Lolyne
The East Lancs Lolyne is a type of double-decker bus body built by East Lancs. It is the double-decker version of the Spryte. It continued the long line of 'misspelt' names which continued until the Scania OmniDekka. It was built on the Denni ...
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It has a double-curvature windscreen with a separately mounted destination display
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and an arched top with a rounded roof dome similar to the Flyte
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as commonly seen on these buses
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in the United Kingdom. Like the Lolyne, it continued the line of deliberately misspelt names of East Lancs products. But unlike the Lolyne, which survived through the Myllennium-series as the Myllennium Lolyne, the Spryte did not. Instead, it was replaced by the single-decker Myllennium, sometimes called by its unofficial name, the Myllennium Spryte.
See also
*List of buses
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References
External links
*East Lancs Spryte/Flyte images on Flickr
{{East Lancashire Coachbuilders Spryte Buses of the United Kingdom Midibuses Low-floor buses Low-entry buses Single-deck buses