| Type | Private (?) |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Marshall Bus |
| Founded | 2002 |
| Headquarters | Ely, England |
| Products | Bus bodies |
| Parent | Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles (MCV) |
| Website | www.mcv-eg.com |
MCV Bus and Coach is a British manufacturer of bus bodies founded in late 2002 after buying the assets of defunct bus builder Marshall Bus who closed down in the summer of that year. It is a subsidiary of the Egyptian Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles[1].
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MCV started production with a batch of 5 Dennis Darts for Warrington Borough Transport and were built to the Capital design. However at this time TransBus (who produced the Dart and other Dennis products) didn't want any other bodybuilders for the chassis as they were to sell them as complete TransBus products (i.e. Darts with Pointer bodies etc.), so these remained a one off. MCV looked at a few other chassis to body before deciding they would body on the MAN 14.220, the bodywork for this was based on the Capital design, but with a new front end, and being adapted to work with this heavy duty chassis, it was renamed the Stirling and was launched in 2003. It was later added to the shorter 12.220.
In late 2004, MCV unveiled the Evolution.
The Ego was launched in November 2006.
In 2010 MCV build a new double-deck body design (coded as DD103) on the Volvo B9TL double decker chassis. The design was similar with the ComfortDelGro Engineering bodywork built for SBS Transit's Volvo B9TL.
The first bus was built as demonstrator for Go-Ahead London, but the bus suffered from overweight issue and it was subsequently rebuilt and transferred to Wessex Connect. As of January 2011, no orders have been placed.
Due to the first prototype of the new MCV double decker being too heavy for TfL service, MCV has made a second lighter version of the bus and sent it to MCV's Sutton plant in Cambridgeshire for testing, before transferring to Go-Ahead London. It has take up service on London Buses route 474.
At the Coach and Bus 2004 show, MCV had also expressed some interest in bodying the then forthcoming new MAN A48 (ND243F) double decker, which was available with East Lancs Kinetec+ bodywork, however this never came to anything.