The Wright Handybus was a single-deck bus body built primarily on Dennis Dart

Dennis Dart

The Dennis Dart is a rear-engined midibus built by Dennis in the United Kingdom. More than 11,000 were built during 18 years of production....

 chassis by Wright

Wrightbus

Wrightbus is an independent coachbuilder and pioneer of the low-floor bus. Based in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, it was established in 1946 by Robert Wright and currently run by his son William Wright.-History:...

 between 1990 and 1995. It was also built on a small number of Leyland Swift

Leyland Swift

The Leyland Swift was a midibus chassis built by Leyland Bus from 1987, sharing many components with the Roadrunner light truck but with the engine relocated to behind the front axle which was itself set back to permit a passenger entrance in the front overhang...

chassis, in which form it had a higher floorline. It has a bolted aluminium structure.

The outward styling is quite plain, with a flat front. Two alternative windscreen styles were offered; some vehicles had a single-piece flat windscreen, whilst others had two separate flat windscreens with that on the driver's side raked back, reminiscent of some 1950s single deckers.

London Buses was the first and also the largest customer, buying a fleet of nearly two hundred Handybus-bodied Darts. Go-Ahead Northern also bought over eighty, and Ulsterbus and Citybus had forty between them.