MCV Bus and Coach is an Egyptian manufacturer of bus bodies founded in 2002 when

Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) is an Egyptian manufacturer for buses and trucks. The factory, manufacturing plant is located in El Salheya El Gedida ("New Salheya"), with the head office in Obour City, near Cairo. The manufacturer ow ...

bought some of the design rights of defunct English bus builder

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."A Capital idea, the evolution of MCV" ''

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'' issue 702 September 2013 page 31 The MCV factory is located in El Salheya El Gedida ("New Salheya"), approximately 100 km north of

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History

MCV's first deliveries were five

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bodies on

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s for English operator Warrington Borough Transport in early 2003. However TransBus subsequently decided not to make the Dart chassis available to other bodybuilders resulting in the superseding MCV Stirling appearing on the

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14.220 chassis. This was in turn succeeded by the

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in 2005 that has been built on various chassis from

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, MAN,

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, VDL and

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. MCV has also built double deck bodies with the DD102, DD103 and EvoSeti. The latter has been purchased in sizeable numbers by

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operators

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and

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Current models

MCV EvoTor The MCV EvoTor (stylised as ''eVoTor''; internal designation ''MCV 523'') is a model of coach bodywork produced by Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) on Volvo B11R chassis since 2018, mainly for the United Kingdom and Ireland market. The f ...

(2018–present) *

MCV Evora The MCV Evora (stylised as ''eVoRa''; internal designation: MCV C113/C123/C133) is a single-decker bus bodywork produced by Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) since 2018, as the successor to the MCV Evolution. The Evora is currently available ...

(2018–present) *

MCV EvoSeti The MCV EvoSeti (stylised as eVoSeti) is a Low-floor bus, low-floor double-decker bus body built by MCV Bus & Coach as a replacement for the MCV DD103. It was unveiled in May 2015. Design The EvoSeti body is built on the Volvo B5TL and Volvo B5L ...

(2015–present)

In collaboration with Volvo

* Volvo 7900e (Body only, 2023–present) * Volvo BZL single-deck (Body only, 2021–present) * MCV DD113 (Body only, 2023–present)

Former models

* MCV Capital (2003) * MCV DD102 (2014) *

MCV DD103 The MCV DD103 is a low-floor double-decker bus body built by MCV Bus and Coach built on the Volvo B9TL chassis. Most of them are built as open top variants instead of closed top buses. The MCV DD103 was launched in May 2011. One was triall ...

(2011–2014) * MCV Ego (2006–2007) *

(2003–2014) * MCV Stirling (2003–2005) * MCV Evolution 2 (2011–2018)

References

External links

{{Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) Bus manufacturers of Egypt Egyptian companies established in 2002 Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 2002 Conglomerate companies of Egypt