Plaxton Prestige

The Plaxton Prestige is a low-floor single-deck bus body built by Plaxton at the Wigan factory of its Northern Counties subsidiary, and at its main Scarborough factory, during the latter half of the 1990s.

The Prestige was mostly built on DAF SB220 chassis, although small numbers were built on Volvo B10BLE chassis. Several of the DAF vehicles were LPG-powered; gas tanks were located on the roof. Arriva was a major purchaser of the Prestige, with a number for London and for provincial areas, all on DAF chassis. It was only a short term affair, however, being in favour of its sister, the Pointer.

In Plaxton's body numbering system, the letter H identified the Prestige, although not all Prestiges received a Plaxton body number (early examples being numbered in the Northern Counties series).

At one stage, the Prestige was provisionally given the name Paladin LF. Northern Counties' contemporary step-entrance single-deck body was the Paladin, and LF would have stood for low floor. However, the name Prestige (which had earlier been briefly used for an export variant of the Plaxton Excalibur) was given to the model instead.

Gallery

• Arriva Kent & Sussex 3914 rear.JPG

  Arriva Southern Counties Plaxton Prestige Rear, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

• Carousel Buses DAF976 R976 FNW.JPG

  Carousel Buses Plaxton Prestige, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

• Go North East bus 4863 DAF SB220 Plaxton Prestige S863 ONL Bargain Bus livery in Newcastle 9 May 2009.jpg

  Go North East Plaxton Prestige, in Newcastle.

See also

• List of buses

References

• Millar, Alan (2007) Bus & Coach Recognition : Ian Allan Ltd., ISBN 0-7110-3136-3

External links

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