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Post by swfcforever on Dec 22, 2008 11:40:20 GMT
I dont know if anyone can answer this:-
Has any buses ever been delievered to the local companies that has never been used?
Mainly new buses, but also secondhand.
Sean
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Post by steve2006 on Dec 22, 2008 17:00:23 GMT
When Stagecoach took over Tracky and GTL in Liverpool Stagecoach transfered some Alexander/B6s over from Liverpool, these were never used I'm guessing they were used for spares
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Post by busman3 on Dec 22, 2008 18:13:47 GMT
FSY had a tow wagon which was never used.
The PTE olympians 501/2 were very very close to been used for around 3 hours only : the buses had been sent out but the union had agreed to the type been used therefore there was a chance that they would be "backed" I was dragged out of bed at around 8am one morning and told the get them on film before 10am when the union met. They did of course carry on in use
Herman the german for the tram system
Cant think of anything else , although TM have - alledgadly - had a lot of stuff sent from dealers but rejected.
And in the same theme some stuff that came during the PTE hireings in the 1980s was never used
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Post by captainsharpe1 on Dec 22, 2008 18:19:16 GMT
5065 CUB 65Y and 5089 A89 KUM were 2 Bradford Traveller Olympians delivered to Olive grove that didn't come up to scratch and ended up being stripped and sent to PVS. An Alexander Bodied Metrobus new To Kelvin but came from Leicester also went the same way. Not to mention ex Capital Citybus N/C Olympians with 888 reg's and some G-reg Metrobuses all going to Manchester via Olive grove during 2001/2.
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Post by ateam on Dec 22, 2008 22:07:57 GMT
Did 31136 ever see service with FSY before moving? Also do 42-47 from this batch also qualify?
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Post by duncan on Dec 23, 2008 1:23:48 GMT
Cant think of anything else , although TM have - alledgadly - had a lot of stuff sent from dealers but rejected. Correct indeed busman3! The latest was the Solo SR, Optare seemed top think if they left it there long enough they would grow to like it. T.M's answer was short and swift............ they bought a standard slimline one. There have been a great many sent but not bought/ used. Too many to list. |
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Post by thrybergh on Dec 23, 2008 14:26:17 GMT
Did 31136 ever see service with FSY before moving? Also do 42-47 from this batch also qualify? Don't think it did and this batch was always intended to be split between Cherry Row and Olive Grove since they were ordered, it was only 31136 that was not expected, which moved south for Brown route 76 for the Showcase routes in Bristol. This is why 31782 - 31786 were ordered for Sheffield as a replacement for the 6-7 YU52 batch up in Leeds at Cherry Row. Though never understood why they actually came to Sheffield as the 76 was fully converted, can remember them on the 82's for a few months, then they seemed to run onto the 87/97's after that. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2008 15:02:15 GMT
Do several thousand Almex ticket machines count? Chris Brooke Taylor ordered them (yes, he is the brother of Tim) but the union in Sheffield rejected them!
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Post by Tom B on Dec 23, 2008 15:45:16 GMT
Goody goody yum yum!
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Post by 22438 on Dec 23, 2008 16:38:53 GMT
Surely if the YU52s were meant for Leeds from the start, they'd have been given Leeds registrations?
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Post by captainsharpe1 on Dec 23, 2008 19:20:57 GMT
Surely if the YU52s were meant for Leeds from the start, they'd have been given Leeds registrations? What do you think YU stands for? or MX?. |
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Post by ryansf on Dec 23, 2008 19:38:30 GMT
YU is Sheffield though, isnt it? With YA-K being Leeds, which is why most new buses to Leeds are YJ, along with the SY ones being YN.
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Post by markno16 on Dec 23, 2008 19:39:08 GMT
Well YU is Sheffield, and MX is Manchester, which doesn't help!
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Post by mainline on Dec 23, 2008 19:46:10 GMT
Why would they change the registrations though? if they are the exact same batch then keep them with the same registrations surely rather than mixing them up. Probably why YU was chosen which is a little odd rather than the usual YN.
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Post by 22438 on Dec 23, 2008 19:50:29 GMT
Why would they change the registrations though? if they are the exact same batch then keep them with the same registrations surely rather than mixing them up. Probably why YU was chosen which is a little odd rather than the usual YN. You could say that about any large First order. Why are our 2007 Geminis YNs, when Manchester's are MXs and Leeds's are YJs when they're all from the same order and are pretty much identical, I don't know, but they are - First tend to register their buses locally and I can't see why they wouldn't have done the same with the YU52s if they were always meant for Leeds. |
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