The Wright Renown was a
low entry single-decker bus
A single-decker bus or single-decker is a bus that has a single deck for passengers. Normally the use of the term ''single-decker'' refers to a standard two- axled rigid bus, in direct contrast to the use of the term double-decker bus, which ...
body built on
Volvo B10BLE
The Volvo B10BLE was a rear-engined low-entry single-decker bus chassis manufactured by Volvo in Sweden between 1993 and 2004. The first prototypes were built in 1992, but mass production started in 1993, only a year after the high-floor B10B. I ...
chassis by
Wrightbus
Wrightbus is a Northern Ireland based bus manufacturer and a pioneer of the low-floor bus. The company was established in 1946 by Robert Wright and was later run by his son William Wright, until it was acquired in 2019 by British businessman ...
in
Ballymena, Northern Ireland.
Over 800 Renowns were built between 1997 and 2002, making it somewhat more successful than the
B10L-based
Liberator.
The Renown was replaced by the
Eclipse (later Eclipse Metro) on
Volvo B7L
The Volvo B7L is a fully low floor single-decker bus, double-decker bus and articulated bus chassis with a rear engine mounted vertically on the left of the rear overhang. It was built as a replacement for the Volvo B10L, and the Volvo Olympi ...
chassis, but due to unpopularity of the chassis, Wright developed the
Eclipse Urban on
Volvo B7RLE
The Volvo B7RLE is a low-entry single-deck bus chassis manufactured by Volvo. It was superseded by the Volvo B8RLE in 2013.
Specifications
The Volvo B7RLE is similar to its predecessor, the B10BLE. In essence the B7RLE is the front section of t ...
chassis, which became the true successor of the Renown.
File:Arriva bus 4509 Volvo B10BLE Wrightbus Renown V509 DFT in Newcastle 9 May 2009 pic 1.jpg, Arriva North East Wright Renown bodied Volvo B10BLE
The Volvo B10BLE was a rear-engined low-entry single-decker bus chassis manufactured by Volvo in Sweden between 1993 and 2004. The first prototypes were built in 1992, but mass production started in 1993, only a year after the high-floor B10B. I ...
in Newcastle Newcastle usually refers to:
*Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England
*Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England
*Newcastle, New South Wales, a metropolitan area in Australia, named after Newcastle ...
.
File:Arriva bus 4506 Volvo B10BLE Wrightbus Renown V506 DFT in Newcastle 9 May 2009 pic 2.jpg, Arriva North East Wright Renown bodied Volvo B10BLE in Newcastle.
External links
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Low-entry buses
Renown
Vehicles introduced in 1997