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原文传递 FENTON FILE

题名：	FENTON FILE
正文语种：	eng
作者：	MIKE FENTON
摘要：	The 11.3m rear-engined Renault PR100 first appeared in the UK at the 1988 Motor Show at the National Exhibition Centre, with a 51-seat Northern Counties body with Renault front end. In some ways, this was a strange choice of vehicle, as the PR100 was far from a new model. It was a contemporary of the Leyland National, launched in 1971 by Berliet which Renault acquired from Citroen in 1974; it had become a Renault product in 1979. Its successor, the R312, was announced in 1987 but the PR100 (and its PR180 articulated equivalent) remained in production into the 1990s. Renault sold over 600 right-hand-drive versions to the Australian cities of Canberra and Perth (the Canberra vehicles were badged as Mack products), also with locally built bodywork incorporating the standard PR100 front, but Northern Counties built just five for use in the UK. There were two for normal service, with single front door, and three 27-seaters for Luton International Airport that had front and centre doors on the nearside and centre doors on the offside. Renault's UK base was in nearby Dunstable.
出版年：	2021
期刊名称：	Buses
卷：	73
期：	796