to a management buyout team, operating under the name Trinity Holdings. The company was renamed Duple International. With declining coach sales, attempts were made to increase the sale of the bus bodywork, including plans for a design for the Scania N113. However, in July 1989, the decision was made to close down the Duple operation. The jigs for the Duple 300-series and the Duple 425 integral were sold to domestic rival Plaxton. Plaxton also bought Duple Services Ltd., the spares and repair business. The Duple body designs for the Dartline were sold to Carlyle Works of Birmingham. Thus ended 70 years of Duple Motor Bodies Limited. Company names in different times Duple Bodies & Motors Ltd 1919-1946 Duple Motor Bodies Limited 1946-1968 Duple Motor Bodies (Midland) Limited Duple Motor Bodies (Northern) Limited Duple Coachbuilders Limited 1968-1983 Hestair Duple 1983-1989 Trinity Holdings 1989 Products Early Duple bodies were not given individual model names. The practice of using model names began with the Vista in 1936 but names were not applied consistently across the coach range until the 1950s, and even in the late 1950s some low-volume coach models were not named. Bus bodywork was usually unnamed, until the Dominant Bus of 1974. Bodies given specific model names were as follows (all coach bodies unless specified): bodies on lightweight chassis to 1972 Vista I/II/III (1936–39) on Bedford WTB Vista (1940 & 1946–51) on Bedford OB and rebodied OWB Hendonian (1937-39 & 1946–51) on Bedford WTB/OB and rebodied OWB, variant of Vista with straight waistline Luton (1939) bus body on Bedford WTB. Similar bodies built post-war were not named. Sportsman (1951–52) on Bedford OLAZ Vega / Super Vega / Alpine (1950–62) on Bedford SB. Super Vega was longer version introduced 1952. Alpine (1958) had a clear perspex roof. Corinthian (1954–62) / Yeoman (1959–62) on Commer Avenger and Ford Thames 570E respectively, essentially Vegas by another name for non-Bedford chassis. Similar bodies without any model name were built on Albion Victor and Leyland Comet, and as rebodies on older heavyweight AEC Regal, Crossley SD42, Daimler CVD6, Leyland Tiger and Maudslay Marathon chassis Super Vista (1957–61) on Bedford C5 Firefly (1963–65) on Albion Victor, Bedford SB and Ford Thames 570E, Duple (Northern) design, successor to Burlingham Gannet Bella Vista (1962–66) on Bedford VAS Bella Vega (1963–69) / Trooper (1963–65) on Bedford SB and Ford Thames 570E respectively Vega Major (1963–66) on 36' three axle Bedford