Ian Fuller2006
A Daimler what?
Carris' fleet included a handful of underfloor-engined British-built single deckers too. Their representative in the Carris museum collection is no. 78, a Daimler CVU6LX.
There's not a lot of Coventry labour in this particular Daimler, however. The CVU6LXs, which arrived in 1967 along with some rather similar AEC Reliances, were actually Guy Victorys bearing Daimler badging. New with only 18 seats as a bit of an experiment in multi-standing single deckers, they were apparently rather unpopular as such. Nonetheless they had long lives and were eventually upseated to a more comfortable 26 seat layout in the 1980s. This one lasted until 1991 before withdrawal. Carris would go single deck in a big way from 1975, but using rear-engined products from Sweden, Germany and Italy rather than the UK.
A Daimler what?
Carris' fleet included a handful of underfloor-engined British-built single deckers too. Their representative in the Carris museum collection is no. 78, a Daimler CVU6LX.
There's not a lot of Coventry labour in this particular Daimler, however. The CVU6LXs, which arrived in 1967 along with some rather similar AEC Reliances, were actually Guy Victorys bearing Daimler badging. New with only 18 seats as a bit of an experiment in multi-standing single deckers, they were apparently rather unpopular as such. Nonetheless they had long lives and were eventually upseated to a more comfortable 26 seat layout in the 1980s. This one lasted until 1991 before withdrawal. Carris would go single deck in a big way from 1975, but using rear-engined products from Sweden, Germany and Italy rather than the UK.