The Featured Bus for May/June 2016 is the German bus manufacturer: M A N
Since 1975, ACTION has been home to 283 buses made by MAN Truck & Bus of Munich, Germany (previously known as Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG).
The first MAN was a SL200, Bus 410 (1), which was delivered in July 1975 as part of an initial order of ten. The most recent MAN was Bus 502 (2), a A69 18.320 which entered service in July 2012.
The full fleet of MANs is as follows:
- SL200: Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation body (1975-79), 410-449, 451-509, 511-531, 553-567 – 135 buses
- SL200: Smithfield Bus & Coachworks body (1980-81), 569-579 – 11 buses
- SL200: Custom Coaches body (1981), 580-584 – 5 buses
- SG192: MAN/Göppel body (1976-78, 1985), 450, 510, 532, 671 – 4 buses
- SG192: Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation body (1979. 1986), 533-551, 673 – 20 buses
- SG192: Custom Coaches body (1986), 672 – 1 bus
- SL202: Ansair body (1991), 734-735 – 2 buses
- A69 18.310 HOCL-NL CNG: Custom Coaches CB60 II body (2008), 374-389 – 16 buses
- A69 18.310 HOCL-NLTEP / A69 18.320 HOCL-NL/E5 Diesel: Custom Coaches CB60 II body (2009-12), 390-463, 491-505 – 89 buses
Further details:
- MAN SL200 article on ACT Bus
- MAN SG192 article on ACT Bus
- MAN A69 18.310 (CNG) specifications on ACT Bus
- MAN A69 18.320 specifications on ACT Bus
Related Featured Bus articles:
- Bus 450 (April 2011)
- Bus 390 (May 2011)
- Bus 672 (Aug 2012)
- Bus 673 (Jan 2013)
- Bus 734 (May 2013)
- MAN SL200 (Sep 2013)
- Bus 410 (Sep/Oct 2014)
- Bus 735 (Jan/Feb 2015)
- Bus 374 (Nov/Dec 2015)
- Bus 491 (Jul/Aug 2018)
- Bus 442 (Sep/Oct 2018)
- Bus 400 (Jul/Aug 2019)
- Top 15 buses: #6 MAN A69 18.320
- Top 15 buses: #3 MAN SL200
This page was last updated on 18 February 2024
