Wrightbus founder, Sir William Wright, dies aged 94
By Bradley Osborne - 27th July 2022
UK – A thanksgiving service was held today for Sir William Wright, who founded ‘Robert Wright & Son Coachbuilders’ (later Wrightbus) with his father in 1946, at Green Pastures Church in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, following his death on 24 July 2022.
Wright is credited with an admirable list of achievements. In the UK, he pioneered the manufacture of aluminium bus frames in 1976 and low-floor buses in 1992. Perhaps more significantly, he led the design of the first British-built electric bus in 1999 and, in 2015, the world’s first fuel-cell electric double-deck bus. He was awarded an OBE in 2001, an MBE in 2011, and a knighthood in 2018 for services to the UK bus industry.
