De Haan's Bus & Coach

De Haan 's Bus & Coach is one of the brothers Luit and Nicolaas de Haan 1951 based in Parow, South Africa company to manufacture coaches and buses. Today the company is the oldest bus manufacturers in South Africa.

History

Getting excited attention both in 1952 as this Jan van Riebeeck Festival 1952 on behalf anfertigten six replicas of Zeederberg -drawn carriage. For this purpose the contractor the exact measurements now the original, which is kept in the Johannesburg Museum and built to simulate sketches and detailed plans to. Quick, the company became known in South Africa and sold her car across the country. Especially the gold rush in some regions helped in this success.

As this boom then ended in the early seventies, the company completed the development / production of their own vehicles and started the assembly of CKD kits based on the buses from MAN.

Since 2007, though, CKD kits of R 120 are mounted on behalf of the MCV. In 2011, the models Challenger 125, Challenger 138 and 140 Superior, which is marketed as MAN, do so. The management of the company currently have held the two emigrant sons Peter and Andre de Haan. The company was bought by the MCV Corporate Group and incorporated in this way in the company in March 2010. However, the company name is still persist. Since 2013 there is the MCV 121 Sphinx. The Superior 140 was meanwhile upgraded to MCV S140 Challenger. The Challenger 125 has simply renamed to S125.

Weblink

  • The Official Website of De Haan 's Bus & Coach
  • MCV official website of South Africa
  • Company (South Africa)
  • Bus manufacturers
  • MAN Truck & Bus
  • Cape Town
  • Economy ( Western Cape )
  • Founded in 1951
Types of business entity Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles
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