Marshall Bus

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Marshall Bus
FateAdministration
Successor MCV Bus and Coach
Founded1940s
Defunct2002
Headquarters
Cambridge
ProductsBus and coach bodywork

Marshall Bus was an English builder of bus and coach bodywork based in Cambridge. It was owned by the Marshall Group until sold in a management buyout in 2001.

Cambridge City and non-metropolitan district in England

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of London. At the United Kingdom Census 2011, its population was 123,867 including 24,506 students. Cambridge became an important trading centre during the Roman and Viking ages, and there is archaeological evidence of settlement in the area as early as the Bronze Age. The first town charters were granted in the 12th century, although modern city status was not officially conferred until 1951.

Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group is an aircraft maintenance, modification and design company located at Cambridge Airport, which it also owns and operates. The company covers all aspects of design, manufacture, maintenance, modification, conversion and logistic support of military, commercial and business aircraft. It employs over 4,400 people and is based on an 800-acre (3.2 km2) site with 1,200,000 square feet (110,000 m2) of covered hangar space. It works on a large variety of aircraft types and projects.

A management buyout (MBO) is a form of acquisition where a company's existing managers acquire a large part or all of the company from either the parent company or from the private owners. Management and leveraged buyouts became phenomena of the 1980s. MBOs originated in the US and traversed the Atlantic, spreading first to the UK and throughout the rest of Europe. The venture capital industry has played a crucial role in the development of buyouts in Europe, especially in smaller deals in the UK, the Netherlands, and France.

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History

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First Chester & The Wirral C37 bodied Dennis Dart in Bromborough in March 2007

Marshall Bus was established in the 1940s by David Marshall. In 1958 it purchased the bus bodying business of Mulliners. [1] [2] During the 1960s it bodied many buses for British Electric Traction. [3] [4] [5] It ceased manufacturing in the early 1980s. [6] [7]

British Electric Traction

British Electric Traction Company Limited, renamed BET plc in 1985, was a large British industrial conglomerate. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was acquired by Rentokil in 1996, and the merged company is now known as Rentokil Initial.

In January 1992, Marshall Bus re-entered the bus bodying industry after purchasing the rights to the Duple Dartline from Carlyle Works. [8] It also completed bodies on Iveco Ford 49.10s and Volvo B6s. [9]

Duple Dartline

The Duple Dartline was a single-decker bus body built on the Dennis Dart chassis by three manufacturers - Duple Coachbuilders of Blackpool, Carlyle Works of Birmingham and Marshall Bus of Cambridge - between 1989 and 1993.

Carlyle Works former coach builder

Carlyle Works was an English builder of bus and coach bodywork based in Egbaston.

Volvo B6 midibus chassis from Volvo, VIN code R3

The Volvo B6 was a 5.5-litre engined midibus chassis manufactured by Volvo between 1991 and 1999. It was also available as the low-entry Volvo B6LE.

The company's most popular product was the Marshall Capital, which was a single-decker bus body built between 1997 and 2003. It was built on Dennis Dart SLF and MAN chassis. [10] [11]

Marshall Capital Single decker bus bodywork

The Marshall Capital was a single-decker bus body built originally by Marshall Bus between 1996 and 2002, and later by MCV Bus & Coach between 2002 and 2003. Initially launched on the step-entrance MAN 11.220 and then Iveco Eurorider chassis, the Capital found greater success after being launched on the low-floor Dennis Dart SLF chassis from 1997. Marshall also produced a related, integral midibus, known as the Marshall Minibus, between 1996 and 1998.

MAN Truck & Bus german manufacturer of commercial vehicles, subsidiary of MAN SE

MAN Truck & Bus AG is the largest subsidiary of the MAN SE corporation, and one of the leading international providers of commercial vehicles. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, MAN Truck & Bus produces vans in the range from 3.0 to 5.5 t gvw, trucks in the range from 7.49 to 44 t gvw, heavy goods vehicles up to 250 t road train gvw, bus-chassis, coaches, interurban coaches, and city buses. MAN Truck & Bus also produces diesel and natural-gas engines. The MAN acronym originally stood for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, formerly MAN AG.

In the 1990s, Marshalls performed overhauls on West Midlands Travel MCW Metrobuses. [12] In 2001/02, Marshall rebuilt a number of AEC Routemasters for Transport for London. [13]

National Express West Midlands

National Express West Midlands (NXWM) is a bus operator in the West Midlands that operates services in Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. It is a subsidiary of National Express.

MCW Metrobus

The MCW Metrobus was a two and three-axle double-decker bus manufactured by Metro Cammell Weymann (MCW) between 1977 and 1989, with over 4,000 built. The original MkI was superseded by the MkII which had a symmetrical windscreen with an arched top in 1981, although production of the original MkI continued for the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive and London Regional Transport until 1983 and 1985 respectively. The Metrobus was conceived as an integral product manufactured completely by MCW, but Alexander and Northern Counties also bodied some examples.

AEC Routemaster British double-decker bus

The AEC Routemaster is a front-engined double-decker bus that was designed by London Transport and built by the Associated Equipment Company (AEC) and Park Royal Vehicles. The first prototype was completed in September 1954 and the last one was delivered in 1968. The layout of the vehicle was conventional for the time, with a half-cab, front-mounted engine and open rear platform, although the coach version was fitted with rear platform doors. Forward entrance vehicles with platform doors were also produced as was a unique front-entrance prototype with the engine mounted transversely at the rear.

In 2001 the business was sold by Marshall Special Vehicles in a management buyout. [14] [15] In 2002 Marshall was placed in administration and shortly after closed. [16] [17] MCV Bus & Coach bought the design rights for the Capital body and continued production for a short while before its successor, the MCV Stirling, was introduced. [18]

As a legal concept, administration is a procedure under the insolvency laws of a number of common law jurisdictions, similar to bankruptcy in the United States. It functions as a rescue mechanism for insolvent entities and allows them to carry on running their business. The process – in the United Kingdom colloquially called "under administration" – is an alternative to liquidation, or may be a precursor to it. Administration is commenced by an administration order. A company in administrative receivership is operated by an administrator on behalf of its creditors. The administrator may recapitalize the business, sell the business to new owners, or demerge it into elements that can be sold and close the remainder. Most countries distinguish between voluntary (board-decided) and involuntary (court-decided) receivership. In voluntary administrative receivership, the administrator is appointed by the company directors. In involuntary administrative receivership, the administrator is appointed by a judicial court. The legal terms for these processes vary from country to country, and the processes may overlap.

MCV Stirling Single decker bus bodywork

The MCV Stirling is a low-floor and low-entry single-decker bus body introduced in 2003 and built by MCV Bus and Coach until 2005. It was the successor of the Marshall Capital, as MCV bought Marshall's styling rights after the company closed down in 2002. In late 2004, MCV introduced the Evolution, and production for the Stirling ended shortly afterwards.

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Dennis Dart bus manufactured by Dennis in Guildford, England

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References

  1. ↑ Bodybuilders' Agreement Commercial Motor 6 November 1959
  2. ↑ About Us Marshall Group
  3. ↑ Large Orders for Marshall Commercial Motor 16 July 1965
  4. ↑ More Bus Bodies from Marshall Commercial Motor 1 April 1966
  5. ↑ Marshall scoops the BET bus order pool Commercial Motor 28 June 1968
  6. ↑ Marshalls on the road again Commercial Motor 23 April 1992
  7. ↑ History Marshall Group
  8. ↑ Marshalls snaps up rights to Dart Commercial Motor 16 January 1992
  9. ↑ Marshall makes three Commercial Motor 11 June 1992
  10. ↑ Marshall C39 Series Bus Lists on the Web
  11. ↑ Marshall C43 / MAN Bus Lists on the Web
  12. ↑ Guided again Bus & Coach Buyer 5 January 2017
  13. ↑ AEC Routemaster Review Classic Cars for Sale
  14. ↑ Marshall of Cambridge (Holdings) Limited Annual report for year end 31 December 2001 page 9
  15. ↑ Marshall Specialist Vehicles Limited (company #2661432) Report & Accounts for year ended 31 December 2001 Marshall Specialist Vehicles page 2
  16. ↑ Edwards leaves MCV Bus & Coach Professional 30 November 2009
  17. ↑ MCV reaches 1000 Coach & Bus Week 25 June 2019
  18. ↑ "A Capital idea, the evolution of MCV" Buses issue 702 September 2013 page 31

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