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Willowbrook (bus manufacturer)

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Willowbrook was an English bus bodybuilder. Founded in 1927, it acquired the business of Stokes & Holt, Leicester. In 1952 it acquired a patent from Brush Traction to build metal-framed bodies. While buses where their core business, they also built bodies for Alvis TC 108G cars in the mid 1950s.

IndustryAutomotive
Founded1927
Defunct1983
Headquarters,
England
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Willowbrook
IndustryAutomotive
Founded1927
Defunct1983
Headquarters,
England
ProductsBus bodies
OwnerDuple Coachbuilders
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The company was sold to Duple Coachbuilders in September 1958, and then in a management buyout in 1971, it ceased in 1983.[1][2]

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