Category:Dublin Bus RH/RA/RV class
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English: In the 1990s the mainstay of the Republic of Ireland's capital city's Dublin Bus fleet was the RH/RA/RV class, a dual-door double-decker bus with Leyland Olympian (later Volvo Olympian) chassis, and bodywork built by Alexander's Belfast plant in Northern Ireland. It was visually similar to the R-type bodywork built for other customers by Alexander (including some built in Belfast) on a variety of chassis including the OlympianR, but was otherwise unique to Dublin Bus. Compared to other R-types on Olympian chassis, the Dublin fleet uses a mixture of a fullheight style upper deck with lowheight style shallow windscreen, and also has a larger two piece radiator grille and smaller headlamps in a twin arrangement, as opposed to single radiator/headlamp units used on other Olympian R-types. The fleet was sequentially numbered from 1 to 640, but prefixed with the RH/RA/RV class designations to denote certain differences in the batches, as follows
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Class | Years built | Fleet numbering | Description | Visual markers |
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RH | 1990-93 | RH1 - RH175 | Leyland Olympian chassis, Cummins engine | Alexander badge, round headlamps, indicators mounted high |
RA | 1994-96 | RA176 - RA325 | Volvo Olympian chassis, Cummins engine | Alexander & small Volvo badge, square headlights with indicator mounted alongside |
RV | 1997-99 | RV326 - RV640 | Volvo Olympian chassis, Volvo engine | As with RA class but with diagonal Volvo bar and badge across the grille |
English: R - Alexander also used the codes RH and RV to denote their high and lowheight R-type bodywork on certain chassis, including Olympians.
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