Just a little bit of history repeating.
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In your 5 August issue you report MAN's adoption of Dennis Eagle's Elite 2 low-floor cab for a new municipal chassis range, with a comment from marketing boss Fred van Putten that "the two companies have been in negotiations for the past 18 months".
Mr van Putten might not remember, but much longer ago, in about 1995.soon after Dennis's first Elite model appeared, MAN and Mercedes separately entered into talks with Dennis Eagle with a view to their marketing the vehicle in Germany. In each case the idea was to fit the German maker's engine and axles in an otherwise standard Elite chassis shipped from Warwick. Mercedes even went so far as to show a Dennis-built 0M466powered prototype — badged with a three-pointed star — at the 19% Hanover show. However, it was decided in Stuttgart to follow a different path and clone' the Elite's configuration, with its set back engine position allowing a uniquely low, spacious and uncluttered cab floor.The result was the now familiar Econic.
But in Munich MAN's initially similar plan was put on ice and has only now, a decade on, been revived albeit scaled down to a 10-year cab-supply agreement.
Dennis Eagle managing director Norman 'Thoday says the renewed relationship with MAN has also led to the German company's engines being evaluated, in competition with three other suppliers, including Cummins, to provide power units for Euro-4 compliant Elite chassis.
Alan Bunting, Harpenden, Hens