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Plaxton Prestige
Northern Counties Prestige
Stagecoach on Teeside bus 21104 Volvo B10BLE Plaxton Prestige P604 JBU in Middlesbrough bus station 5 May 2009
Plaxton Prestige bodied Volvo B10BLE
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An Arriva North West Plaxton Prestige Interior
Manufacturer Northern Counties
Plaxton
Replaced NC "Paladin"
Operator(s) Arriva's North East and Yorkshire divisions amongst others
Specifications
Length Option
Width Option
Floor type Low floor
Doors 1 door or 2 Door
Chassis DAF SB220
Volvo B10BLE
Engine(s) DAF LT1160 (DAF)
Volvo (Volvo)
Transmission ZF Automatic
Options Various customer options

The Plaxton Prestige is a low-floor single-deck bus body built by Plaxton at the Wigan factory of its Northern Counties subsidiary, and at its main Scarborough factory, during the latter half of the 1990s.

The Prestige was mostly built on DAF SB220 chassis, although small numbers were built on Volvo B10BLE chassis. Several of the DAF vehicles were LPG-powered; gas tanks were located on the roof.

In Plaxton's body numbering system, the letter H identified the Prestige, although not all Prestiges received a Plaxton body number (early examples being numbered in the Northern Counties series).

At one stage, the Prestige was provisionally given the name Paladin LF. Northern Counties' contemporary step-entrance single-deck body was the Paladin, and LF would have stood for low floor. However, the name Prestige (which had earlier been briefly used for an export variant of the Plaxton Excalibur) was given to the model instead.

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