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Marshall C37

motor vehicle

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ6773506
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The Marshall C37 was a step-entrance midibus body introduced in 1993 on the Dennis Dart chassis, the body was also able to be fitted to the MAN 11.220 chassis. About 140 were produced. Brighton & Hove and Oxford Bus Company purchased 20 each while China Motor Bus purchased eight for use on express services on Hong Kong Island, with air conditioning and various other options as standard.

A common feature is that it was fitted with the wrap-around windscreen with arched top with a separately mounted destination indicator for most of the buses. Production stopped in 1997 when it was replaced by the low floor Marshall Capital.

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The public source identifies “Marshall C37” as motor vehicle. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Marshall, motor and vehicle.

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This entry incorporates text from Marshall C37” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.