Do Dennis still make buses?

Alexander Dennis, a subsidiary of NFI Group Inc., one of the world's leading independent global bus manufacturers, today launched its next generation of battery-electric buses for the UK and Ireland with the unveiling of the new Enviro100EV small bus and Enviro400EV double decker.



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Bus Manufacturers throughout the UK There are many makes and models of buses on routes in the UK but there are three British bus manufacturers in operation. These are Alexander Dennis, Wrightbus (who built the new Routemaster) and Optare.

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Alexander Dennis, the long-established Scottish bus builder and one of the country's largest manufacturers, has been acquired by Canadian firm NFI Group in a £320 million deal that will net Stagecoach co-founder Sir Brian Souter a bumper payout.

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Megabus is the brand of a low cost inter-city bus service from Stagecoach Group. The brand originated in the United Kingdom and started up a few years later in the United States, followed later by Canada, where services are operated by Stagecoach Group subsidiaries Coach USA and Coach Canada.

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Stagecoach is the UK's biggest bus operator, with services connecting more than 100 major towns and cities across England, Scotland, and Wales. We also operate a number of coach and tram services.

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In 1901 Dennis Bros. Ltd moved into a factory designed for the production of their motor vehicles on the corner of Onslow Street and Bridge Street, in Guildford. This building was later known as Rodboro Buildings, after the Rodboro Boot and Shoe Company who bought the building from Dennis in 1917.

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Unite said the closure of the Guildford operation by ADL, the UK's largest bus and coach builder, was an example of a large corporate company using 'the cloak of Covid-19' to axe highly skilled jobs - and outsource work to Turkey.

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The Volvo 9900, Volvo Buses' premium coach, received two prestigious awards at the international Busworld show in Brussels. Facing tough competition from eight rivals, the Volvo 9900 was voted both safest and best coach all categories in the Busworld Awards 2019 competition.

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Volvo Buses scoops 'best bus' in three categories at the 2020 ETM awards. Volvo's coach, intercity and electric buses won 'Best Travel High Decker', 'Best Intercity Bus' and 'Best Electric Bus' respectively in the import rankings at the ETM readers' choice digital awards ceremony in Stuttgart, Germany.

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The UK has three main bus manufacturers: Alexander Dennis in Falkirk, Scotland and in Scarborough; Switch Mobility, formerly known as Optare, which is based in Sherburn in Elmet in my constituency; and Wrightbus in Northern Ireland.

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Both Megabus and Falcon are Stagecoach's 100% owned inter-city coach operations. In addition, the Perth-based group has a joint venture, Scottish Citylink, with international transport group, ComfortDelGro.

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The improvements in Scarborough are part of a wider programme of investment in Alexander Dennis's production capabilities in the UK, which is also seeing two new production lines for the manufacturer's next generation of zero-emission buses established at its headquarters in Larbert, Scotland.

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