Dennis Trident 3

The Dennis Trident 3 is a three-axle, low-floor double-decker bus chassis, the first of its kind built by Dennis in the United Kingdom. It was developed from the Dennis Lance and has a longitudinally mounted rear Cummins engine, with an auxiliary axle behind the second axle to carry the rear weight and shorten the overhang. Six prototype chassis were built in 1996, and production chassis were fitted mostly with Alexander ALX500 or Duple Metsec DM5000 bodies in lengths from 10.3 to 12 metres. Most went to Hong Kong operators such as Kowloon Motor Bus, Citybus and New World First Bus, with further orders from Singapore, Canada and the United States. In 2002 the chassis was reworked as a complete bus, the TransBus Enviro500, and no further Trident 3 chassis are known to have been built after that year.