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Dennis Specialist Vehicles was an English manufacturer of commercial vehicles based in Guildford, building buses, fire engines, lorries (trucks) and municipal vehicles such as dustcarts. All vehicles were made to order to the customer's requirements and more strongly built than mass production equivalents.
Dennis specialist vehicles. The records of Dennis Specialist Vehicles Ltd form one of the largest collections at Surrey History Centre. They document the history of the company, Dennis Bros....
In 1984 Hestair Dennis decided to concentrate on building just chassis, relying on other firms to build the bodies of the vehicles. The following year the company was renamed Dennis Specialist Vehicles. Also in 1985, John Dennis, grandson of the founder, started his own works in Guildford, known as John Dennis Coachbuilders.
Dennis Specialist Vehicles was an English manufacturer of commercial vehicles based in Guildford, building buses, fire engines, lorries (trucks) and municipal vehicles such as dustcarts. All vehicles were made to order to the customer's requirements and more strongly built than mass production equivalents.
The Dennis Society is gradually compiling Chassis Lists for vehicles produced by Dennis Brothers of Guildford, Dennis Brothers, Dennis Bros (1913), Dennis Specialist Vehicles and Alexander Dennis.
The Dennis RS/SS series was a range of fire engine chassis built by Hestair Dennis (later Dennis Specialist Vehicles), produced from 1978 until the early 1990s.
Dennis drawings and photographs. The Surrey History Centre catalogues of the Dennis drawings and photographs collections provide documentation of many of the vehicles made by the company...
