MCV Bus and Coach is an Egyptian manufacturer of bus bodies founded in 2002 when

Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) is an Egyptian manufacturer for buses and trucks. The manufacturing plant is located in Salheya, the Head Office in Obour City, near Cairo. The manufacturer owns the trademark rights of the brands ' ...

bought some of the design rights of defunct English bus builder Marshall Bus."A Capital idea, the evolution of MCV" ''

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History

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MCV's first deliveries were five Capital bodies on

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s for English operator Warrington Borough Transport in early 2003. However TransBus subsequently decided not to make the Dart chassis available to other bodybuilders resulting in the superseding

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appearing on the

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14.220 chassis. This was in turn succeeded by the

MCV Evolution The MCV Evolution (stylised as ''eVolution''; internal designation: MCV C102) is a low floor and low entry single-decker bus body built by Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles. It was unveiled in 2003 as the successor to the MCV Stirling. The MCV ...

in 2005 that has been built on various chassis from

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, MAN,

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, VDL and

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. MCV has also built double deck bodies with the DD102, DD103 and EvoSeti. The latter has been purchased in sizeable numbers by

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operators

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and

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.MCV continues to march on with EvoSeti
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Current models

* MCV Evolution 2 (2011–present) *

MCV Evora The MCV Evora (stylised as ''eVoRa''; internal designation: MCV C123) is a single-decker bus bodywork produced by Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) since 2018, as the successor to the MCV Evolution. The Evora is currently available on Volvo B ...

(2018–present) * MCV EvoSeti (2015–present) * MCV EvoTor (2018–present)

Former models

* MCV Capital (2003) * MCV DD102 (2014) * MCV DD103 (2011–2014) * MCV Ego (2006–2007) *

(2003–2014) *

(2003–2005)

References

External links

{{Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) Bus manufacturers of Egypt Egyptian companies established in 2002 Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2002