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The Plaxton Paragon and Plaxton Panther are closely related designs of coach bodywork built by Plaxton in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, since 1999, [1] and still in production as of 2024. For part of their design life, Plaxton was part of TransBus International , during which time the designs were officially referred to as the TransBus ...
The Volvo B9R is a rear-engined coach chassis built by Volvo.It can be built with bodies up to 13 m (42 ft 8 in) long and a maximum gross weight of 19,000 kg (42,000 lb).
Another major English customer for the Leyland Leopard was Barton Transport of Chilwell near Nottingham, which built up a fleet of 200 with Plaxton Elite and Supreme coach bodywork. Unusually for a large operator, Barton standardised on this type of vehicle for all types of work including local stage carriage services; for this reason, all were ...
In this regard, Plaxton's sales were through Lancashire Motor Traders Ltd of Manchester and Arlington Motor Co Ltd of London. The company became known as FW Plaxton & Son by 1937, as the founder's son, also named Frederick William joined the company at the age of 18. FW Plaxton junior was to be known as Eric to avoid confusion with his father.
Plaxton Elites are also operated on express services by some operations of the Stagecoach Group. A fleet of Elites entered service with Stagecoach West on the Oxford-Cambridge X5 service in 2015, [12] [13] and Stagecoach West Scotland took delivery of four Elites in October 2017 for use on the X24 service between Dunfermline and Glasgow Airport ...
The Leyland Panther was a rear-engined single-decker bus chassis manufactured by Leyland between the years 1964 and 1972. A version with a smaller engine was released as the Leyland Panther Cub . [ 1 ]
Twenty-five of these bodies were the only Plaxton 321 bodies built, this being the Plaxton derivative of the Duple 320 body acquired when Duple closed. Volvo acknowledged that the Tiger and B10M were broadly similar, and whereas Leyland had sold 3,500 Tigers since the model's launch, Volvo had sold 20,000 B10Ms during the same period.
Minsterley Motors EE08OXF, a Plaxton Panther new to Oxford Bus Company, stands at the foot of the Long Mynd in Carding Mill Valley on a private hire working. In 2012, six Wright Eclipse bodied Volvo B7RLEs were delivered to replace the Plaxton Centros on routes 435, 552 and 553. [6] [7] These were followed by three Plaxton Panther bodied Volvo ...