Marshall Bus was an English builder of bus and coach bodies based in

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. It was owned by the

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until sold in a

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in 2001.

History

Marshall Bus was established in the 1940s by David Marshall. In 1958 it bought the bus bodying business of Mulliners. During the 1960s it bodied many buses for British Electric Traction. It ceased manufacturing in the early 1980s. In January 1992, Marshall Bus re-entered the bus bodying industry after purchasing the rights to the

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from Carlyle Works. It also completed bodies on Iveco Ford 49.10s and Volvo B6s. The company's most popular product was the Marshall Capital, which was a single-decker bus body built between 1997 and 2003. It was built on

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and MAN chassis. In the 1990s, Marshalls performed overhauls on West Midlands Travel MCW Metrobuses. In 2001–02 Marshall rebuilt a number of

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s for Transport for London. In 2001 the business was sold by Marshall Special Vehicles in a

. In 2002 Marshall was placed in

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bought the design rights for the Capital body and continued production for a short while before its successor, the MCV Stirling, was introduced."A Capital idea, the evolution of MCV" ''

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Products

*C16/C19 (from Carlyle) * C27 Dartline (from Duple/Carlyle) *C29 (from Carlyle) *C31 *C32/C33 *C35/C36/ C37 * C39 Capital * C43 Capital *Camair 80 *

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