Bus manufacturing is a sector of the automotive industry that manufactures buses and coaches, encompassing chassis builders, body manufacturers and integral manufacturers that produce complete vehicles. The industry traces its earliest origins to carriage building, with some manufacturers emerging from truck production, and historically developed through separate chassis and body construction until integral designs such as the AEC Routemaster combined the two. Bus manufacturing was reshaped again by the rise of van-derived buses in the 1980s, a shift toward low-floor designs for accessibility in the 1990s, and more recent adoption of electric, fuel cell and hybrid powertrains. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Why do bus makers often build the chassis and the body separately?
Splitting the work lets firms specialise and gives buyers more combinations to choose from.
Splitting body and chassis construction lets companies specialise in two different fields. It also lets customers choose different chassis and body combinations, and it lessens a manufacturer's exposure if the other builder goes out of business. Larger operators may also split orders between different body and chassis combinations to get shorter delivery schedules.
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Additional Source Wikipedia: Global Industry Classification StandardGICS: Construction Machinery & Heavy Trucks
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Bus manufacturing, a sector of the automotive industry, manufactures buses and coaches.
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Most production was of buses but trucks and railbus chassis were also built.
Wikipedia: Associated Equipment Company
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Associated Equipment Company (AEC) was a British vehicle manufacturer that built buses, motorcoaches and trucks from 1912 until 1979.
Wikipedia: Wrightbus
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Wrightbus (stylized WRIGHT, or simply Wright) is a Northern Irish bus manufacturer and a pioneer of the low-floor bus.
Wikipedia: Yutong Group
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Yutong (officially Zhengzhou Yutong Group Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese manufacturer of commercial vehicles, especially electric buses, headquartered in Zhengzhou, Henan.
Wikipedia: William Wright (businessman)
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Outside politics, Wright took over the family business, moving it into the construction of buses, a process which saw it become the Wright Group, with Wrightbus as its best-known subsidiary.
Alexander Dennis (Wikipedia)
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New Flyer (Wikipedia)
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Ikarus (Wikipedia)
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Leyland Bus (Wikipedia)
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