Wright Renown

The Wright Renown is a low floor single-decker bus body built on Volvo B10BLE chassis by Wrightbus in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

This system in both single and dual-door format was tested extensively at the Motor Industry Research Association's Warwickshire proving grounds before its official launch with the Renown.

[2][3] Built with an Alusuisse bolted aluminium frame as standard among other Wright products at the time, the Renown was also the first 12 metres (39 ft) low-floor bus in Europe to feature gasket glazed windows as a result of the extra body strength from the Floline design; previous low-floor buses had featured bonded glazed windows, which took longer to replace and compromised the structural integrity of the body when broken.

[10] The Renown was also highly popular with the Blazefield Group, with a total of 125 delivered to its Harrogate, Keighley, Yorkshire Coastliner, Lancashire United and Burnley operations throughout the type's production run.

[3][11][12][13] Among these, Blazefield took delivery of both the last Renowns built and the last Volvo B10BLEs for the UK market, consisting of an order for 41 examples that were delivered mainly to Lancashire United between late 2001 and early 2002.

Rear of Keighley & District Wright Renown at Keighley bus station, August 2009
First Somerset and Avon Wright Renown in Bristol in June 2011
Arriva Northumbria Wright Renown in Newcastle upon Tyne in May 2009