The First of Ten New Minibuses for Ealing Community Transport
Last week SCW’s Paul Dedman had the pleasure of delivering the first of ten brand-new wheelchair accessible minibuses to the team at Ealing Community Transport.
This new vehicle, based on the Mercedes Sprinter L3H2 can transport up to 12 passengers plus driver or 6 wheelchairs with seats removed. The passenger saloon features a variety of removable seats and tip & turn seats all upholstered in a grey wipe clean material with colourful yellow piping and headrests. Other features include rear saloon heating and air conditioning, a front-entry design with a cut in step and a PLS underfloor tail lift. For the full specification of these new vehicles, please see below.
About Ealing Community Transport
Ealing Community Transport is the founding part of ECT Charity who are one of the UK’s leading providers of community transport. The charity carried out over 360,000 trips per year for communities in Ealing, West London, Cheshire and Dorset. Their new vehicles will be put work work within a number of fantastic services such as:
Door to door service which provides transport to people within the borough who find it difficult to use standard public transport
Transport for GP appointments
Group transport for local community groups
Adult day centre transport
Home to school transport for children with special educational needs and disabilities
Vehicle Specification
Based on the Mercedes Sprinter L3H2
Privacy tinted rear windows
Front-entry design with specialist SCW cut in step and automatic step light
SCW Flat Floor design overlaid in wood-effect non-slip lino
Driver’s seat with night blind
Wheelchair restraint box fitted behind the driver’s seat
12 passenger seats (removable seats and tip & turn seats) plus driver
Facility to carry up to 6 wheelchairs with seats removed
Seats upholstered in a wipe clean grey material with yellow piping and headrests
Interior trimmed in soft-feel materials with yellow feature panels
PLS underfloor tail lift
Eberspaecher heating and air conditioning
Blue / white LED roof lighting and low-level blue LED lighting
High level cant rail tracking and side wall tracking
Heavy-duty rear door pins
We would like to say thank you to Ealing Community Transport for choosing us to carry out their wheelchair accessible conversions. We look forward to delivering the next nine Mercedes Sprinters and to hopefully working with this fantastic charity again in the future.