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:''Not to be confused with Wightbus, the bus operator.'' Wrightbus〔(Companies House extract company no NI006119 ) Wrightbus Limited formerly Robert Wright & Son (Coachworks) Limited〕 is a British coachbuilder and pioneer of the low-floor bus based in Galgorm, Northern Ireland, it was established in 1946 by Robert Wright and currently run by his son William Wright. ==History== Wrightbus was founded in 1946 as Robert Wright & Son Coachbuilders.〔(Wright on Course ) ''Commercial Motor'' 7 November 1991〕 In its early years it rebodied lorries. In 1978, the company released its first aluminium-structured bus bodywork. Wright's breakthrough into the mainstream bus bodybuilding sector came in the early 1990s.〔(Robert Wright is to diversify ) ''Commercial Motor'' 1 August 1991〕 The Handybus was a midibus body offered on a variety of chassis but was most successful on the emerging Dennis Dart attracting reasonably sized orders from a variety of operators including London Buses, Go Ahead Northern, Ulsterbus and Citybus (Belfast).〔(Wright midi boosts jobs ) ''Commercial Motor'' 1 November 1990〕 This was followed by a move into the full size single deck market with the ''Endeavour'' body which was fitted to Dennis Javelin, Leyland Tiger and Scania K93 chassis, and enabled Wright to develop its highly successful Endurance body which competed with the Alexander Strider and Northern Counties Paladin for orders on Volvo B10B and Scania N113CRB chassis.〔(Wright choice for YT ) ''Commercial Motor'' 16 April 1992〕〔(Wright launches intercity coach ) ''Commercial Motor'' 28 May 1992〕 Other Wright products introduced in this period included two Mercedes-Benz-based products, the O405 based ''Cityranger'' and the OH1416 based ''Urbanranger''. This was launched around the time bus operators in the UK began switching to low floor chassis. As a consequence the Urbanranger only attracted a handful of orders. However Wright had become well established in the bus bodybuilding sector by then and was more than able to exploit the opportunities the low-floor revolution would offer it from mid-1990s onwards. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wrightbus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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