ElDorado (bus manufacturer)

ElDorado (formerly ElDorado National–Kansas) is an American manufacturer of cutaway buses, owned by Forest River, with its headquarters and main factory in Salina, Kansas.

ElDorado
Formerly
  • ElDorado National–Kansas
  • ElDorado Motor Corporation
  • ElDorado R.V.
  • Ward Manufacturing, Honorbuilt Division
  • Honorbuilt Manufacturing
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryAutomotive
Headquarters
Salina, Kansas
,
United States
ProductsCutaway buses
ParentForest River
Websiteeldorado-bus.com

The company was founded in 1960 as Honorbuilt Manufacturing, was acquired by Ohio-based Ward Manufacturing in 1965, was renamed El Dorado R.V. in 1978 and started building cutaway buses by 1980. The company combined with National Coach Corporation, a California-based builder of transit buses in 1991 to become El Dorado National–Kansas and El Dorado National–California. The combined El Dorado National became one of the light-duty and mid-size buses for the airport/hotel/rental car shuttle bus markets and local transit operators with smaller fleets.

ElDorado National was sold to Allied Specialty Vehicles (later renamed REV Group) in 2013. In 2020, the Kansas-based cutaway bus manufacturing business was spun off as ElDorado and sold to Forest River. El Dorado National–California was renamed ENC and remains owned by REV Group.

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