The East Lancs Myllennium was a type of single-decker bus body manufactured by

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Dennis Dart SLF The Dennis Dart is a Rear-engine design, rear-engined single-decker bus, single-decker midibus chassis that was introduced by Dennis Specialist Vehicles of Guildford, England in 1989, replacing the Dennis Domino. Initially built as a high-floo ...

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14.220 and

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chassis. It was designed in 1999 as a bus for

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routes M1 and M2 operated by

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, but soon after became available for other operators. It was superseded by the

East Lancs Esteem The Optare Esteem was a low-floor single-decker bus body manufactured by East Lancashire Coachbuilders, Darwen East Lancs and Optare between 2006 and 2009 on Scania N94UB, Scania N230UB, Volvo B7RLE, MAN 12.240, Alexander Dennis Dart SLF, ...

in 2006

Operations

United Kingdom

The bus has seen orders, the majority of them coming from

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and

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. Notable orders include London Central for routes M1 and M2, which its buses have been sold to

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. 22 were bought in 2005-7 by

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for contract use, initially for school contracts before moving onto park and ride routes. Enterprise had also bought two for contract use with

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division Bluestar once the contract with them was finished.

Guernsey

CT Plus had bought around 30 short-width Myllenniums with the Dennis Dart SLF chassis between 2004 and 2005. These were later phased out in 2018 with Wright Streetvibes.

Hyline

The Hyline body was designed to re-body reconditioned

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and

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chassis. The bus itself could seat up to 67 passengers. Six Leyland Tigers were rebodied in 2000 as Myllennium Hylines for

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. Two further orders were placed, both for Volvo B10M chassis. Looking rather different from the Strathtay examples, the Volvos was built with bonded glazing and had the

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located at the very rear off side. The concept was not a great success, as a result no further orders followed - the Hylines representing the end in the United Kingdom of rebodying for the bus industry. It was built like the Myllennium single-decker but for high-floor buses and thus, it could not be ordered with any new, low floor chassis. The body was discontinued in 2002.

Special

In line with previous East Lancs products, the Myllennium bodywork was used to body less standard buses than

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s. Notable examples include the

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buses, in various places around the United Kingdom.

Gallery

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Myllennium rear in

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in 2009 File:BBC Wales mobile studio - geograph.org.uk - 171944.jpg, Myllennium bodied

as a

mobile studio in

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in April 2006

Notes

References

External links

* * {{East Lancashire Coachbuilders Myllennium Full-size buses Low-floor buses Step-entrance buses Vehicles introduced in 1999