Much of the following has been adapted from Ian Smith’s excellent
Ian’s Bus Stop website. London Buses had gone through a dreadful phase in the 1980s when the fashion became breadvan-derived minibuses that were supposed to nip through the traffic and into estates where real buses could not go. They nipped alright; but with breadvan suspension and heavy clogs on the brake pedals, they did not endear themselves to passengers. The launch of the Dennis Dart in 1990 marked a return to some kind of sanity in bus design. They may have been small but were properly-designed buses. Dennis had hitherto only been a minor player in the bus market, but its expertise in other sectors had led it to cure the braking problems that had previously bedevilled small-wheeled bus designs. Of the many body designs, the box-like Reeve Burgess (later Plaxton) Pointer was probably the most versatile and enduring, being built in a wide range of configurations; and the Dennis Dart/ Plaxton Pointer is widely acclaimed as the bus of the decade (26-Mar-21).
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