The Plaxton Beaver, originally known as the Reeve Burgess Beaver, is a

minibus A minibus, microbus, minicoach, or commuter (in Zimbabwe) is a passenger-carrying motor vehicle that is designed to carry more people than a multi-purpose vehicle or minivan, but fewer people than a full-size bus. In the United Kingdom, th ...

body built by

Plaxton Plaxton is an English builder of bus and coach vehicle bodies based in Scarborough. Founded in 1907 by Frederick William Plaxton, it became a subsidiary of Alexander Dennis in May 2007. In 2019, the maker was acquired by Canadian bus manufac ...

. It was built at the Pilsley, Derbyshire factory of Plaxton's

Reeve Burgess Reeve Burgess was a bus body manufacturer based in Pilsley, North East Derbyshire in the United Kingdom. It was a subsidiary of Plaxton from 1980 until its closure in 1991. History The original company known as Harry Reeve was founded in Bridg ...

subsidiary from 1987 to 1991, at Plaxton's main

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factory from 1991, and from 1995 at

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. The Beaver has been built mainly on Mercedes-Benz van-derived

chassis such as the 709D and 811D, and was also built on the Renault S56 and S75 until 1992. Rare examples were also built on Iveco 49.10 chassis. The Beaver 2, built on

Mercedes-Benz Vario The Mercedes-Benz Vario (model designation BM667/668/670) is a full-size commercial heavy van manufactured by Mercedes-Benz between 1996 and 2013. History The Vario was launched in 1996 as a facelifted version of the Mercedes-Benz T2. The bod ...

chassis, replaced the original Beaver in December 1996, and was still in production in 2007. In 2006 Plaxton launched the Beaver 3, the Beaver 2 body combined with the front end of a

Plaxton Cheetah The Plaxton Cheetah is a minibus/midibus body manufactured by Plaxton in Wigan, England. Between 1997 and 2014 it was mounted on Mercedes-Benz Vario chassis. In April 2015, the Cheetah XL was launched on the Mercedes-Benz Atego chassis. Plaxton ...

Gallery

File:Cozy Travel E518 JHG.JPG, Reeve Burgess Beaver bodied Mercedes-Benz 709D in 2009 File:Chaloner's bus H738 TWB.JPG, Chaloner's Plaxton Beaver 1 bodied Mercedes-Benz O811 in 2009 File:A1A Travel 1 T111 JBA.JPG, Plaxton Beaver 2 bodied Mercedes-Benz O814 Vario in 2008 File:Wightbus 5868 KX56 OVU.JPG,

Wightbus Wightbus was a bus operator on the Isle of Wight, established and owned by the Isle of Wight County Council. It operated a network of thirteen local bus services running across the island, mostly services which would not have been viable for t ...

Plaxton Beaver 3 bodied Mercedes-Benz O814D Vario in 2010

References

* Millar, Alan (1992) ''Bus & Coach Recognition'' : Ian Allan Ltd., * Millar, Alan (2007) ''Bus & Coach Recognition'' : Ian Allan Ltd.,
Plaxton History & Heritage
at Plaxton Centenary website

External links

{{Plaxton

Beaver Beavers are large, semiaquatic rodents in the genus ''Castor'' native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. There are two extant species: the North American beaver (''Castor canadensis'') and the Eurasian beaver (''C. fiber''). Beavers ar ...

Buses of the United Kingdom Minibuses

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