The Dennis Lancet was a lightweight underfloor-engined chassis manufactured by
Dennis
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during the 1980s.
The Lancet nameplate was previously carried by a front-engined chassis, and later, in the 1950s and early 1960s, to the underfloor-engined Lancet UF.
History
The Lancet was launched in 1981. It was mainly used as the basis of a bus or coach, although some were bodied for other uses, mainly as mobile libraries.
At a time before the advent of
low floor buses, when wheelchair access required the fitment of a chairlift, a few bus operators and councils bought Dennis Lancets with this feature.
Leicester Citybus and
West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive
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had three and two respectively with
Duple Dominant Bus bodywork.
Other UK customers for the Lancet included
Tillingbourne Bus Company,
Merseyside PTE (with ten, the largest British fleet),
Northern Scottish,
Blackpool Transport, Portsmouth, Merthyr Tydfil and Taff-Ely.
Around 87 chassis were built. Nearly a third of them were exported, to Bermuda and South Africa.
Dennis Lancet
Bus Lists on the Web The Lancet was replaced by the Dennis Javelin.
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Lancet
Vehicles introduced in 1981
Bus chassis