The EL2000 has an aluminium frame. It has bowed sides and a bowed top half of the rear end, with a high-set rear window.
There was some variability in the height and shape of the side windows, and the style of windscreen. One common design of windscreen was square-cornered, tapered in towards the top and curved around to the sides. Another was a two-piece flat windscreen with radiused outer corners. A third design used was a double-curvature windscreen with an arched top.
Many different chassis types, both new and secondhand, were fitted with EL2000 bodywork. These include:
The EL2000 made its first appearance on rebodied Leyland Tigers at the end of 1989. It was superseded as a step-entrance body by the Flyte, starting in 1996 and stopped production in 2001.
East Lancs first rebodied an accident-damaged Leyland Atlantean with an EL2000 body for Sheffield Omnibus in 1992, with the conversion aimed at increasing its service life. The Atlantean was stripped of its double-deck body and had its chassis lengthened to 36 ft (11 m), receiving a new 10-leaf front and rear suspension, a new five-speed transmission and an AN68 Atlantean coach engine as well as its 47-seat single-deck body.[1][2] Further rebodies and refurbishments were marketed as the 'Atlantean Sprint', with Southampton Citybus making orders for ten of its Atlanteans to be rebodied;[3][4] only five of these rebodies were completed for Southampton.[5]
^Jenkins, David (18 January 2023). "A long slow battle". Buses. No. 815. Stamford: Key Publishing. pp. 30–34. Retrieved 10 February 2023. New buses continued to join the fleet, although an unusual addition was a batch of five 15-year-old Leyland Atlanteans rebodied by East Lancs as single-deckers.(subscription required)
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