East Lancs Spryte

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East Lancs Spryte
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A First Somerset & Avon Dennis Dart SLF / East Lancs Spryte in Yeovil in February 2013
Overview
Manufacturer East Lancashire Coachbuilders
Body and chassis
Doors1 or 2
Floor type Low entry
Chassis Dennis Dart SLF
Volvo B6LE
Volvo B6BLE
Powertrain
Capacity29 to 47 seated
Dimensions
Length9500mm to 11470mm
Width2475mm
Height2750mm
Chronology
Successor East Lancs Myllennium
A Yellow Buses Dennis Dart SLF/East Lancs Spryte, in Bournemouth, Dorset. Transdev Yellow Buses 489 S399 HVV rear.JPG
A Yellow Buses Dennis Dart SLF/East Lancs Spryte, in Bournemouth, Dorset.

The East Lancs Spryte was a low floor single-decker bus body built by East Lancashire Coachbuilders. It was designed to body the Dennis Dart SLF chassis, but a handful have been built on others, for example, the Volvo B6LE. Mechanically and visually, it is the single-decker version of the East Lancs Lolyne.

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It has a double-curvature windscreen with a separately mounted destination display and an arched top with a rounded roof dome similar to the Flyte as commonly seen on these buses in the United Kingdom. Like the Lolyne, it continued the line of deliberately misspelt names of East Lancs products. But unlike the Lolyne, which survived through the Myllennium-series as the Myllennium Lolyne, the Spryte did not. Instead, it was replaced by the single-decker Myllennium, sometimes called by its unofficial name, the Myllennium Spryte.

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