| Wright Handybus | |
| Manufacturer: | Wrightbus |
| Assembly: | Ballymena, Northern Ireland |
| Production: | 1990 - 1995 |
| Floortype: | Step entrance |
| Doors: | 1 |
| Capacity: | 29 to 37 seated |
| Chassis: | Dennis Dart Leyland Swift |
| Length: | 8.50NaN0, 90NaN0 and 9.80NaN0 |
| Width: | 2.520NaN0 |
| Height: | 3.020NaN0 |
| Engine: | Cummins B Series (Dennis Dart) |
| Successor: | Wright Crusader |
The Wright Handybus was a single-deck bus body built primarily on Dennis Dart chassis by Wrightbus between 1990 and 1995. It was also built on a small number of the higher-floor Leyland Swift chassis. It has a bolted aluminium structure with two windscreen styles.
The outward styling was quite plain, with a flat front. Some vehicles had a single-piece flat windscreen whilst others had two, separate, flat windscreens with the glass on the driver's side being raked back, reminiscent of some 1950s single-decker buses and the Leyland Lynx.
London Regional Transport was the first and also the largest customer, buying nearly 200 Handybus bodied Dennis Darts.[1] [2] [3] Go-Ahead Northern also bought over 80, and Ulsterbus and Citybus had 40 between them.[4] The Handybus was succeeded in 1995 by the Crusader.
A former London Regional Transport Handybus has been preserved by the London Transport Museum, Acton.[5]