THE LONDON SHOWBUS BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Metroline | Low floor singledeckers
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Newly delivered, complete with Cambridge registration (where Marshall's bodyworks was located) DML42 (R672MCE) is a Dennis Dart SLF ordered by MTL London North. It is operating the C11, the route for which it was intended. Not intended at the time of ordering, was the takeover by Metroline. The Dart thus has an identity crisis. It has been given the blue Metroline skirt, but at the time of delivery no decisions had been made about fleetname styles so it anonymous.
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DML14 (R694MEW) has received full Metroline identity, having been delivered in MTL red, it is seen on route to Trafalgar Square in Baker Street.
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Fortunately the SHOWBUS gallery includes few pictures of buses on tow. Sadly, we have two Metroline Darts, the other is in the MTL London gallery. Lantern provided the Iveco tow truck for both. The Marshall Dart SLF was captured through the top deck window of a bus going the other way.
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 Successor to the Marshall body design was MCV, who build buses in Egypt, with a UK base in Cambridge. The MCV Evolution was based on the Marshall design, which in turns dates back to the original Duple bodywork on the Dennis Dart. This is not a Dart, but MM777 (LK07AYH) is an MAN 12.240, seen on display at North Weald in 2007. The MM code was also used on Metroline's Marshall bodied MAN buses. |
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 At work on the 190 circumnavigating the Heathrow perimeter road in May 2011 is MCV Evolution bodied MAN 12.240 MM826 (LK57AYX). |
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