Marshall Bus was an English builder of bus and coach bodies based in

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. It was owned by the

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until sold in a management buyout in 2001.

History

Marshall Bus was established in the 1940s by David Marshall. In 1958 it bought the bus bodying business of

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. During the 1960s it bodied many buses for

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. It ceased manufacturing in the early 1980s. In January 1992, Marshall Bus re-entered the bus bodying industry after purchasing the rights to the

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from

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. It also completed bodies on Iveco Ford 49.10s and

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s. The company's most popular product was the

Marshall Capital The Marshall Capital (later sold as the MCV Capital) was a single-decker bus body built originally by Marshall Bus between 1996 and 2002, and later by MCV Bus & Coach between 2002 and 2003. Initially launched on the step-entrance MAN 11.220 a ...

, which was a single-decker bus body built between 1997 and 2003. It was built on

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and

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chassis. In the 1990s, Marshalls performed overhauls on

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es. In 2001–02 Marshall rebuilt a number of

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s for Transport for London. In 2001 the business was sold by Marshall Special Vehicles in a management buyout. In 2002 Marshall was placed in

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and shortly after closed.MCV reaches 1000
'' Coach & Bus Week'' 25 June 2019

MCV Bus and Coach MCV Bus and Coach is an Egyptian manufacturer of bus bodies founded in 2002 when Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles bought some of the design rights of defunct English bus builder Marshall Bus."A Capital idea, the evolution of MCV" ''Buses Magaz ...

bought the design rights for the Capital body and continued production for a short while before its successor, the

MCV Stirling MCV Bus and Coach is an Egyptian manufacturer of bus bodies founded in 2002 when Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles bought some of the design rights of defunct English bus builder Marshall Bus."A Capital idea, the evolution of MCV" ''Buses Magazi ...

, was introduced."A Capital idea, the evolution of MCV" '' Buses'' issue 702 September 2013 page 31

Products

*C16/C19 (from Carlyle) * C27 Dartline (from Duple/Carlyle) *C29 (from Carlyle) *C31 *C32/C33 *C35/C36/ C37 * C39 Capital * C43 Capital *Camair 80 *

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References

External links

{{commons category-inline Defunct bus manufacturers of the United Kingdom Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 2002 2002 disestablishments in England British companies disestablished in 2002