Frances Knowles wrote: So...is it "size dependent"?
I'm interested in how such a conversion would be treated if confronted with "Class A-under-ten-years only" restrictions.
Seems unlikely that the guy at the gate would be calling the RVIA for direction in that department...
Thanks!
Yes size dependent. A Japanese 30-32ft Bus is used mainly for local area transport A Scania,MAN, Volvo Coach is normally over 40ft, carries many passengers and is fairly luxurious. Age of the vehicles does not come into it.
A converted 25-27ft Hino Bus
an old 1980's Denning Motorhome 40ft Long.
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The Wiki for Australia RV classes largely reflects a synthesis of US and British classifications. The following info is from "Campervans" (British) Wiki
The British use Class A just like AU and US. They do not have a Class C, but talk about coachbuilts (cutaway chassis with a coach built on) either as having an overhanging bed (over cab), or being low profile.
Low profiles are "Coachbuilt but without a raised bed over the cab…Typical base vehicles are lighter-duty and/or smaller-engined variants of the same vehicles used for overcab designs.”
Thus, the low profile is our good friend, the B+: a smaller C w/o a cabover.
As for British B-class: “This term is not commonly used except for imported North American models, which may vary greatly in size from semi-low profile coachbuilts to van conversions.”
So we also see that in Britain as in AU, Class B includes our B+.
Instead of our odd sequencing of big/luxurious Class A, smaller but similar Class C, and smalleer yet, Class B (and worse, still, they are now Type A, B, and C), consider the British scheme: Big/luxurious, Class A; at the other extreme, conversion vans and campervans w/ no toilet. In between there are various 'coach builts' (I really would like to know if we got Class C from this word, coachbuilt).
Thats it. No mixed-up lettering that constrains manufacturers like LTV in ability to properly market the goods. And, no reason for RVIA to desensitize the word 'class' with 'Type'.
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burlmart wrote: (I really would like to know if we got Class C from this word, coachbuilt).
I know this one!
Here in the U.S.A., "Class C" was actually the first letter-based designation of what we all now refer to as motorhomes.
It goes back to the earliest mass-produced units permanently mounted on a truck Chassis, which were at first called Chassis Mount Campers.
The "C", of course, came from "chassis".
Personally, I think this construction method superior to the ground-up type...but you have to hand it to the industry for making some folks believe that a "Class A" label actually means the rig is somehow "better"!
I guess the big implication from this is that you can classify a rig by its hardware specifications, as we do in the US using Class C to mean Chassis-built, or look at it functionally like the UK and AU as Coach-built with intent on low-profile, Class B type character.
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