The Plaxton Prestige is a
low-floor single-decker bus body built by
Plaxton at the
Wigan, England factory of its
Northern Counties subsidiary, and at its main
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
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factory, during the latter half of the 1990s.
The Prestige was mostly built on
DAF SB220 chassis, although small numbers were built on
Volvo B10BLE chassis. Several of the DAF vehicles were
LPG-powered; gas tanks were located on the roof.
Arriva was a major purchaser of the Prestige, with a number for
Transport for London and for provincial areas, all on DAF chassis. It was only a short-term affair, however, being in favour of its sister, the
Pointer.
In Plaxton's body numbering system, the letter H identified the Prestige, although not all Prestiges received a Plaxton body number (early examples being numbered in the Northern Counties series).
At one stage, the Prestige was provisionally given the name Paladin LF. Northern Counties' contemporary
step-entrance single-decker bus body was the
Paladin, and LF would have stood for
low floor. However, the name Prestige (which had earlier been briefly used for an export variant of the
Plaxton Excalibur
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) was given to the model instead.
Gallery
File:Arriva Kent & Sussex 3914 rear.JPG, Plaxton Prestige Rear, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
File:Carousel Buses DAF976 R976 FNW.JPG, Carousel Buses
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Plaxton Prestige, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
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.
File:Go North East bus 4863 DAF SB220 Plaxton Prestige S863 ONL Bargain Bus livery in Newcastle 9 May 2009.jpg, Go North East Plaxton Prestige, in Newcastle.
File:PP INT.JPG, An Arriva North West Plaxton Prestige interior
See also
*
List of buses
References
* Millar, Alan (2007) ''Bus & Coach Recognition'' : Ian Allan Ltd.,
External links
{{Plaxton
Prestige
Buses of the United Kingdom
Low-floor buses
Single-deck buses