- Plaxton Prestige
The Plaxton Prestige is a low-floor single-deck bus body built by
Plaxton at the Wigan factory of itsNorthern 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 onVolvo B10BLE chassis. Several of the DAF vehicles were LPG-powered; gas tanks were located on the roof.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.References
* Millar, Alan (2007) "Bus & Coach Recognition" : Ian Allan Ltd., ISBN 0-7110-3136-3
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