Dennis Lance

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One of Diamond Bus's Dennis Lance operating in Birmingham.

A Dennis Lance owned by Kowloon Motor Bus in Hong Kong.

A Dennis Arrow with Northern Counties Palatine 2 bodywork in service with Nottingham City Transport.

The Dennis Lance is a single-decker bus built by Dennis between 1991 and 2000, it was built to replace the Dennis Falcon. Its low-floor variant, the Dennis Lance SLF, was built between 1993 and 1996. Between 1995 and 1998, Dennis also built its double-deck variant, the Dennis Arrow, as the replacement of the Dennis Dominator.

The Dennis Lance was available with a number of bodies, such as Alexander PS and Plaxton Verde. It was sold to a number of bus operators in the United Kingdom, and it was also exported to overseas, such as Hong Kong and Singapore. UMW-Dennis of Malaysia also built a number of Lance chassis (known as the UMW-Dennis Lance) for Southeast Asia market.

The Dennis Arrow was available with Northern Counties Palatine and East Lancs Pyoneer bodywork. Less popular than the single-deck Lance, it was sold to just five PCV operators in the United Kingdom, including Capital Citybus who bought 54 of the 73 built (the total number also included two purpose-built playbuses). The Dennis Arrow was superseded by the low-floor Dennis Trident 2.

Of around 105 Dennis Lance SLF built, a majority had Wright Pathfinder bodywork, including 38 for London Buses, although Berkhof bodywork was fitted to thirty examples for Speedlink Airport Services and five each for Stagecoach East Kent and Stagecoach Ribble.