East Lancs MaxCi
Encyclopedia
The East Lancs MaxCi is a type of low-floor bus
body
built on Scania N113
CRL chassis
by East Lancashire Coachbuilders
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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. It was not very successful, with only 12 examples produced.
It was superseded by the step-entrance European
on Scania L113CRL chassis, which looks very similar but has a straight window line instead of the stepped/sloping arrangement on the MaxCi.
Low-floor bus
A low-floor bus is a bus that has no steps between one or more entrances and part or all of the passenger cabin. Being low floor improves the accessibility of the bus for the public, particularly the elderly or infirm, or those with push chairs, and increasingly, those in wheelchairs.In the modern...
body
Coachwork
Coachwork is the body of a horse-drawn coach or carriage, a motor vehicle , a railroad car or railway carriage. Usually reserved for bodies built on a separate chassis, rather than being of unitary or monocoque construction...
built on Scania N113
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...
CRL chassis
Chassis
A chassis consists of an internal framework that supports a man-made object. It is analogous to an animal's skeleton. An example of a chassis is the underpart of a motor vehicle, consisting of the frame with the wheels and machinery.- Vehicles :In the case of vehicles, the term chassis means the...
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...
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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. It was not very successful, with only 12 examples produced.
It was superseded by the step-entrance European
East Lancs European
The East Lancs European was a single-deck bus body built on the Scania L113CRL chassis by East Lancashire Coachbuilders during 1995 and 1996.A step-entrance design, it was similar in appearance to the low-floor MaxCi on the N113CRL, but had a straight window line as opposed to a stepped...
on Scania L113CRL chassis, which looks very similar but has a straight window line instead of the stepped/sloping arrangement on the MaxCi.