The East Lancs European was a single-deck bus body built on the Scania L113CRL chassis by East Lancashire Coachbuilders

East Lancashire Coachbuilders

East Lancashire Coachbuilders Limited was a manufacturer of bus bodies and carriages founded in 1934 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England.In 1994 the company expanded in to new premises and commenced a programme of development that resulted in a range of single and double deck buses which was the...

 during 1995 and 1996.

A step-entrance design, it was similar in appearance to the low-floor MaxCi

East Lancs MaxCi

The East Lancs MaxCi is a type of low-floor bus body built on Scania N113CRL chassis by East Lancashire Coachbuilders.It is based on a design produced for the Scania CN113CLL MaxCi in Sweden. It was built for the UK market between 1993 and 1995...

 on the N113CRL

Scania N113

The Scania N113 was a transverse-engined bus chassis built by Scania AB of Sweden between 1988 and 2000.Like its predecessor, the N112, the N113 had an 11-litre engine mounted at the rear, coupled to either a Scania or Voith gearbox...

, but had a straight window line as opposed to a stepped one.

History

A total of 79 Europeans were built, of which all but five were for companies owned by British Bus, a predecessor of Arriva

Arriva

Arriva plc is a multinational public transport company owned by Deutsche Bahn and headquartered in Sunderland, United Kingdom. It has bus, coach, train, tram and waterbus operations in 12 countries across Europe, employs more than 47,500 people and services over 1.5 billion passenger journeys each...

. These companies were Luton & District

Arriva Shires & Essex

Arriva Shires & Essex is a division of Arriva, with operations in Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and London. It is one of many private operators of London Buses. Until 2002 its operations included Colchester...

 (taking 27), Northumbria Motor Services

Arriva Northumbria

Arriva Northumbria operates in Northumbria, using the "Arriva serving Northumbria" name. They are considered now to have merged with Arriva North East,-Brief history:*1986: United Automobile Services split into two parts, ready for privatisation....

 (20), Midland Fox (14), Clydeside 2000

Clydeside Scottish

Clydeside Scottish Omnibuses Ltd, in Scotland, was a bus operating subsidiary of the Scottish Transport Group formed in June 1985 from Western SMT Company Ltd...

 (eight) and Derby City Transport (five).

The remaining five were sold to Yorkshire Traction

Yorkshire Traction

Yorkshire Traction was a bus operator in South Yorkshire. Between 1986 and 2005 it was a key part of the Traction Group. In December 2005 it was sold to the Stagecoach Group.-History:...

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The European was superseded in late 1996 by the Flyte

East Lancs Flyte

The East Lancs Flyte is a type of bus body built on several different chassis types by East Lancashire Coachbuilders.-Chassis:Chassis types on which the Flyte was built include:* Scania L113CRL* Scania K112CRB and K113CRB...

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