The Duple Dominant was a design of coach

Coach (vehicle)

A coach is a large motor vehicle, a type of bus, used for conveying passengers on excursions and on longer distance express coach scheduled transport between cities - or even between countries...

 bodywork built by Duple

Duple Coachbuilders

Duple was best known as a British manufacturer of coach and bus bodywork from 1919 until 1989.-History:Duple Bodies & Motors Ltd was formed in 1919 by Herbert White in Hornsey, London...

 between 1972 and 1982. It had an all-steel structure.

Chassis

Duple Dominant bodywork was built on different chassis types including:

• Albion Viking EVK55CL
• AEC Reliance
  AEC Reliance
  The AEC Reliance was a single-deck bus or coach chassis with a mid-underfloor-mounted engine, built by AEC in Southall, west London, England between 1953 and 1979. The name had previously been used between 1928 and 1931 for another single-deck bus chassis....
  
  
• Bedford YRQ, YRT, YMT
• Bristol LH
• DAF MB
• Ford R1014, R1114
  Ford R-Series
  The Ford R-Series is a range of bus and coach chassis evolved from designs made by Ford's Thames commercial vehicle subsidiary until the mid-1960s. A number of components were shared with the D-series lorry, including the engine which was mounted vertically at the front of the vehicle, ahead of the...
  
  
• Leyland Leopard
  Leyland Leopard
  The Leyland Leopard was a mid-engined single-deck bus and coach chassis built by Leyland between 1959 and 1982. It was popular with bus and coach operators throughout the British Isles...
  
  
• Leyland Tiger
  Leyland Tiger
  The Leyland Tiger, also known as the B43, was a mid-engined bus and coach chassis which was built between 1981 and 1993. This name had previously been used for a front-engined bus built between 1920s and 1950s. It replaced the Leyland Leopard, which had been in production for over 20 years...
  
  
• Volvo B58
  Volvo B58
  The Volvo B58 is a mid-engined bus chassis built by Volvo of Sweden from 1966 until early 1982. It was the forerunner to the highly successful B10M....
  
  
• Volvo B10M
  Volvo B10M
  The Volvo B10M is a popular mid-engined bus and coach chassis built by Volvo between 1978 and 2001. It was built as the successor of the B58 and was equipped with a 9.6-litre horizontally-mounted Volvo THD100/THD101/THD102/THD103/THD104/DH10A diesel engine mounted under the floor, near the middle...
  
  

• In 1973 Hutchins Coaches of Pontardawe, Swansea had a new Dominant on a Ford R226
  Ford R-Series
  The Ford R-Series is a range of bus and coach chassis evolved from designs made by Ford's Thames commercial vehicle subsidiary until the mid-1960s. A number of components were shared with the D-series lorry, including the engine which was mounted vertically at the front of the vehicle, ahead of the...
  
   chassis, reg no HWN 509L

Variants

The original design had a windscreen (and matching rear windows) of the same height as the side windows. It remained in production (with a new design of grille) alongside the Dominant II, whereafter it was known as the Dominant I.

The Dominant II (introduced in 1976) had a deeper windscreen, rectangular headlights and a flat rear window.

The Dominant III had shallow, parallelogram

Parallelogram

In Euclidean geometry, a parallelogram is a convex quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides. The opposite or facing sides of a parallelogram are of equal length and the opposite angles of a parallelogram are of equal measure...

-shaped side windows. The Dominant IV had conventional-shaped side windows, but shallower than those on the Dominant II.

The Duple Goldliner was a high-floor version of the Dominant III or IV.

The Duple Dominant E was a bus-specification version of the Dominant I or II. It is not to be confused with the visually dissimilar Dominant Bus which was available from 1974 to 1987.

Competitors

• Plaxton Panorama Elite
  Plaxton Panorama Elite
  The Plaxton Panorama Elite was a successful design of coach bodywork built between 1968-1975 by Plaxton of Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. A wide-doorway variant called the Plaxton Elite Express was also built. Collectively, they are commonly referred to as the Plaxton Elite.It was preceded by the...
  
  
• Plaxton Supreme
  Plaxton Supreme
  The Plaxton Supreme was a design of coach bodywork built by Plaxton. It was first built, on small chassis only, in 1974, replacing the Panorama. On full-sized chassis, it replaced the Panorama Elite in 1975, and was superseded by the Paramount in 1982/3...
  
  
• Willowbrook 008 Spacecar
• Willowbrook 003
• Caetano Estoril
• Caetano Alpha
  Caetano Alpha
  The Caetano Alpha was a design of coach bodywork built by Salvador Caetano of Portugal between 1975 and 1983...