1980s Lancet
The Lancet was mainly used as the basis of a bus or coach, although some were bodied for other uses, mainly as mobile libraries.
At a time before the advent of low floor buses, when wheelchair access required the fitment of a chairlift, a few bus operators and councils bought Dennis Lancets with this feature. Leicester Citybus and West Midlands PTE had three and two respectively with Duple Dominant Bus bodywork.
Other UK customers for the Lancet included Tillingbourne Bus Company, Merseyside PTE (with ten, the largest British fleet), Northern Scottish, Blackpool Transport, Portsmouth, Merthyr Tydfil and Taff-Ely.
Around 87 chassis were built. Nearly a third of them were exported, to Bermuda and to South Africa.
The Lancet was replaced by the Dennis Javelin.
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