Danish Automobile Building
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Danish Automobile Building (DAB) (Danish: Dansk Automobil Byggeri A/S) was a Danish
DAB was founded in 1912 in Silkeborg by a Mr. J.W.Darr, a German. Starting as a truck maker, the company moved into mounting bus bodies on truck chassis, such as
In 1953 DAB started collaborating with Leyland Motors of Great Britain and as a result DAB used Leyland components for many of its buses, commonly building bodies on Leyland chassis, although they still bodied buses on different chassis as needs arose. In the 1970s Leyland bought a majority stake in DAB and renamed the factory Leyland-DAB, DAB also built buses on Leyland underframes, some for import into the UK, such as the Leyland-DAB Lion and Guy Arab.
From 1964, DAB built a standardized bus, mainly for
With the decline of Leyland, the Leyland DAB division was included in the 1987 sale of
In the 1990s with the move to low-floor buses, DAB developed a new concept, the Travelator, later sold as the Servicebus. This was a full low floor short bus with the doors being placed behind the front wheels,[1] in a similar concept to the later Optare Solo. Unusually the rear wheels could be specified as steering single wheels. The model was popular, gaining several export orders.
References
- busexplorer.com Chapter 18: Danish Bus Builders, 4.1. DAB
- ^ www.aalborgbus.dk Archived 2005-12-23 at the Wayback Machine Image of a DAB 'service bus'
