The DAF SB220 was a full-size

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chassis produced by

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from 1985. Initially only built in left hand drive, in 1988 a right hand drive version was launched for the United Kingdom market. An articulated version was also manufactured. It was superseded by the DAF/VDL SB200 and SB250.

Types

* Step entrance *

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Bodywork

Makes and models of bodywork were fitted to the SB220 full-size

chassis include the following:

United Kingdom (step entrance)

* Ikarus Citibus *

Northern Counties Paladin The Northern Counties Paladin, also badged as the Plaxton Paladin towards the end of production, is a step-entrance single-decker bus body built by Northern Counties of Wigan, UK, between 1991 and 1998. The replacements for the Paladin are th ...

* Optare Delta

United Kingdom (low floor/low entry)

* Alexander ALX300 * East Lancs Myllennium * Ikarus Polaris * Ikarus 481 *

Plaxton Prestige 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 factory, during the latter half of the 1990s. The Presti ...

/ Northern Counties Paladin LF

Ireland (step entrance)

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Setanta * Plaxton Verde

Netherlands (step entrance)

* Berkhof ST2000NL *

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B88 *

B89 Alliance

Portugal (step entrance)

*CAMO Camus *CAMO Cronus (Only 2 units of the "standard" version of this bodywork were produced, and both used the SB220 chassis) *Marcopolo Allegro

Spain (step entrance)

*Castrosua CS 40 City *

Hispano Carrocera Tata Hispano Motors Carrocera, S.A. (formerly Hispano Carrocera, S.A.), based in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, was one of the largest manufacturers of bus and coach cabins in Europe. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of the India-based Tata Motors ...

VOV *Ugarte U-2000 *Unicar U-90

Singapore (step entrance)

Setanta (1 unit used a replaced front after an accident, all retired by 1 December 2016) *

(All retired and sold to United Kingdom or New Zealand, ex- City Shuttle Service DAF SB220LT abandoned somewhere in

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)

Romania (step entrance)

*DAF SB 220-Castrosua (RATB Bucharest) *DAF SB 220-Elvo (RATB Bucharest) *DAF SB 220-Hispano Carocera (RATB Bucharest)

References

External links

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