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• Despite ealier promises, Leyland Daf Bus will not now be showing a version of its SB220 rear-engined singledecker bus underframe at the Bus and Coach Council exhibition in October. Following the initial unveiling in spring of a prototype right-hand-drive SB220 to gauge UK operator reaction (CM 28 March), the company has decided to make a number of engineering changes to the SB220's front overhang, which will prevent it appearing at the BCC show.
Leyland Daf Bus, however, says that it will be making a positive statement at the show on its plans for the SB220 — which could include specifications and body options — although it will reveal no further details.
L-.] More than 40 firms, displaying some 90 models, will be represented at this year's Bus and Coach Council show at
the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, making it the biggest one of its kind ever.
Among a number of expected new exhibits, Dormobile will show its new Routemaker — a minibus body on a 3.6 metre wheelbase Freight Rover Sherpa chassis plated at 4,050kg GVW.
A final list of exhibitors is still being compiled, but the number of displays is likely to exceed last year's total of 80.