MCV Bus and Coach is a British

United Kingdom

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 manufacturer of bus

Bus

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 bodies founded in late 2002 after buying the assets of defunct bus builder Marshall Bus

Marshall Bus

Marshall Bus was a British bus manufacturer between 1992 and 2002. The company's most popular product was the Marshall Capital, which was a single-decker bus body built between 1997 and 2003...

 who closed down in the summer of that year. It is a subsidiary of the Egypt

Egypt

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ian Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles

Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles

Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles is an Egyptian manufacturer for buses and trucks located in El Salam City, Cairo. The manufacturer owns the trademark rights of the brands ECHOLINE, eVolution and MCV...

.

Early days

MCV started production with a batch of 5 Dennis Darts for Warrington Borough Transport

Warrington Borough Transport

Warrington Borough Transport is a bus operator running a network of services within the Borough of Warrington, England and into the surrounding area, including Altrincham, Leigh, Earlestown and Northwich. The network of services is marketed under the Network Warrington name, with both names...

 and were built to the Capital

Marshall Capital

The Marshall Capital was a single-decker bus body built by Marshall between 1997 and 2003. It was typically placed on the Dennis Dart SLF chassis, but it was also built on other chassis and used to rebody older chassis....

 design. However at this time TransBus (who produced the Dart and other Dennis

Dennis Specialist Vehicles

Dennis Specialist Vehicles is a major British coachbuilder and manufacturer of specialised commercial vehicles based in Guildford, England...

 products) didn't want any other bodybuilders for the chassis as they were to sell them as complete TransBus products (i.e. Darts with Pointer

Plaxton Pointer

The Plaxton Pointer is a successful single-decker bus body manufactured during the 1990s by Plaxton and latterly built by Alexander Dennis.With the launch of the Dennis Dart in 1989, Plaxton's subsidiary Reeve Burgess made the Pointer body on the short 8.5 m...

 bodies etc.), so these remained a one off.
MCV looked at a few other chassis to body before deciding they would body on the MAN 14.220, the bodywork for this was based on the Capital design, but with a new front end, and being adapted to work with this heavy duty chassis, it was renamed the Stirling and was launched in 2003. It was later added to the shorter 12.220.

DD103

In 2010 MCV build a new double-deck body design (coded as DD103) on the Volvo B9TL

Volvo B9TL

The Volvo B9TL is a low-floor double-decker bus built by Volvo Buses since 2002. It superseded the older Volvo B10TL and the Volvo B7TL.-Chassis:...

 double decker chassis. The design was similar with the ComfortDelGro Engineering bodywork built for SBS Transit

SBS Transit

SBS Transit Limited is a public transport operator in Singapore. Its major competitor in Singapore's duopoly transport system is SMRT Corporation, which also operates bus, rail, taxi and other transport services....

's Volvo B9TL.

The first bus was built as demonstrator for Go-Ahead London

Go-Ahead London

Go-Ahead London is the trading name used collectively for the London bus operations of the Go-Ahead Group. The name first appeared in August 2008, before which the company had traded under separate names and brands...

, but the bus suffered from overweight issue and it was subsequently rebuilt and transferred to Wessex Connect

Wessex Connect

Wessex Connect was founded in Bristol by Rotala, through its subsidiary company Flights Hallmark, to provide Bristol City Council and South Gloucestershire Council with an alternative to the near monopoly currently held in the city by FirstGroup....

. As of January 2011, no orders have been placed.

Due to the first prototype of the new MCV double decker being too heavy for TfL service, MCV has made a second lighter version of the bus and sent it to MCV's Sutton plant in Cambridgeshire for testing, before transferring to Go-Ahead London. It has take up service on London Buses route 474.

Possible new products

At the Coach and Bus 2004 show, MCV had also expressed some interest in bodying the then forthcoming new MAN A48 (ND243F) double decker, which was available with East Lancs Kinetec+

East Lancs Kinetec

The East Lancs Kinetec is a type of bus body for MAN chassis. Both variants were launched at Euro Bus Expo 2006.-Kinetec :The standard Kinetec is a single decker body that appears to have been influenced by the Optare Sigma body in styling and construction. Unlike the Sigma though it is of low...

bodywork, however this never came to anything.