Gemilang Coachworks

Gemilang Coachworks (Chinese: 順豐客車) is a bus bodybuilder in Malaysia, specializing in city, intercity, coach and school bus bodies for various bus chassis.

Gemilang Coachwork

Traded as	SEHK: 6163
Industry	Bus manufacturing
Founded	23 September 1989
Headquarters	Johor , Malaysia
Products	City buses, coaches, electric buses
Services	Design and manufacturing of bus bodies; bus assembly
Website	www.gml.com.my

History

Gemilang Coachworks was founded on 23 September 1989, assembling wooden buses and trucks. In 1999, it entered a partnership with SKS Coachbuilders and became the licence holder for Alusuisse products in Asia.[1]

In Australia, it has a joint venture with Northcoast Bus & Coach.[2] Prior to that, Gemilang had assembled Volgren body kits and BCI had also imported buses from Gemilang.

Gemilang has exported over 3,000 buses to Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, Mexico, North Korea, New Zealand, Qatar, Singapore, Syria, Taiwan and Vietnam. It entered the Australian market in 1999 exporting of over 150 units. Notable orders include 1,101 Scania K230UB buses for SBS Transit,[3] 734 MAN NL323F (A22) for SMRT Buses of Singapore and 790 Scania K250UB and K270UB buses for Rapid Bus of Malaysia.[4] Another notable example is the MAN Lion's City DD L concept bus, which had its bodywork fitted by Gemilang on the MAN ND323F (A95) chassis for the Land Transport Authority of Singapore.[5]

Products

Currently, Gemilang Coachworks offers various aluminium bus bodywork designs (including the licensed MAN Lion's City bodywork range) and configurations that could be customized to meet different manufacturers, operators and regional requirements. Over the years, Gemilang had supplied bodies for BYD, Daewoo, Dennis, GreenPower Bus, Hino, Hyundai, King Long, MAN, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan Diesel, Scania, Sksbus, Sunlong, Volvo and Yutong bus chassis.

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  An SMRT Buses Gemilang Coachworks bodied LHD Mercedes-Benz OC 500 LE
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  A Gemilang Coachworks bodied RHD Scania N230UB bus operated by Ho-Hsin Bus (zh) in Taichung, Taiwan
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  Gemilang bodied Scania K270UB low floor bus as operated by RapidKL
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  Gemilang bodied Scania K340IA articulated bus for Transjakarta bus rapid transit
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  MAN A95 with a MAN-licensed Gemilang body for Kowloon Motor Bus

References

1. Milestones Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine Gemilang Coachworks
2. Aluminium Vehicle Range Northcoast Bus & Coach
3. Alcan Extruded Products to provide lightweight EcoRange® technology for a contract of 600 low CO2 emission buses to Singapore’s main public transportation company Constellium
4. Scania Southeast Asia Griffin Today issue 10 Scania
5. Singapore authority assesses three-door double-decks Bus and Coach Professional

External links

Media related to Gemilang Coachworks at Wikimedia Commons