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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

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This page was last updated on 18 February 2024

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