Marshall C37

Marshall C37
Marshall C37
	Rossendale Transport Marshall C37 bodied Dennis Dart at Bury Interchange in November 2008
Overview
Manufacturer	Marshall Bus
Production	1993–1997
Body and chassis
Doors	1 or 2 doors
Floor type	Step-entrance
Chassis	Dennis Dart ; MAN 11.220
Powertrain
Engine	Cummins B Series (Dennis Dart)
Capacity	36 to 41 seated
Dimensions
Length	8.8m to 9.9m
Width	2.5m
Height	3.0m
Chronology
Predecessor	Duple Dartline
Successor	Marshall Capital

Last updated April 23, 2019

The Marshall C37 was a step-entrance midibus body introduced in 1993 on the Dennis Dart chassis, the body was also able to be fitted to the MAN 11.220 chassis. About 140 were produced. Brighton & Hove and Oxford Bus Company purchased 20 each while China Motor Bus purchased eight for use on express services on Hong Kong Island, with air conditioning and various other options as standard.^[1]

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The Dennis Dart is a rear-engined single-decker midibus chassis that was introduced by Dennis Specialist Vehicles of Guildford, England in 1989, replacing the Dennis Domino. Initially built as a high-floor design, In 1996 the low-floor second generation Dennis Dart SLF was launched. In 2001, production of the Dart SLF passed to TransBus International, during which time it was sold as the TransBus Dart SLF; Alexander Dennis took over production in 2004, renaming the product as the Alexander Dennis Dart SLF.

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.

A common feature is that it was fitted with the wrap-around windscreen with arched top with a separately mounted destination indicator for most of the buses. Production stopped in 1997 when it was replaced by the low floor Marshall Capital.

A low-floor bus is a bus or trolleybus that has no steps between the ground and the floor of the bus at one or more entrances, and low floor for part or all of the passenger cabin. A bus with a partial low floor may also be referred to as a low-entry bus in some locations.

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.

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References

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[1] Marshall C37 Bus Lists on the Web