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Post by snoggle on May 30, 2018 16:16:42 GMT
There is a longish thread of photos from the Plaxton plant of ADL showing MMC single and double deckers in build including for Stagecoach London and GAL. You will need to click into Twitter and follow the thread of tweets and their photos. The shots of the Stagecoach deckers seems to be of the new style blind displays (I may be wrong - I'm sure someone can say for certain). |
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Post by snowman on May 30, 2018 18:33:16 GMT
Those displays do appear to be box like units, I guess it is easy to install them prior to glazing.
If they are the new ones (and I cannot tell), seems a shame that the number unit is separate so still stuck with fixed width regardless of if it is a single digit route number, or a Nxxx number, would have thought it could be one big unit
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on May 30, 2018 19:20:46 GMT
Those displays do appear to be box like units, I guess it is easy to install them prior to glazing. If they are the new ones (and I cannot tell), seems a shame that the number unit is separate so still stuck with fixed width regardless of if it is a single digit route number, or a Nxxx number, would have thought it could be one big unit Something on my casts doubt over the ones in the picture being the new LEDs, I don't think they'd be switched on at this early stage of assembly while blinds don't have the option of being turned off so will always be displaying something. |
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Post by allentc on May 31, 2018 7:02:41 GMT
There is a picture of a "Plaxton Panorama" double deck coach. I follow all things ADL/Plaxton closely and didn't know they were developing a double deck coach. In fact its not mentioned anywhere on their website. But clearly its being built - proof enough. Seems like it hasn't yet been formerly announced unless I missed it.
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Post by ThinLizzy on May 31, 2018 10:59:11 GMT
Those displays do appear to be box like units, I guess it is easy to install them prior to glazing. If they are the new ones (and I cannot tell), seems a shame that the number unit is separate so still stuck with fixed width regardless of if it is a single digit route number, or a Nxxx number, would have thought it could be one big unit Something on my casts doubt over the ones in the picture being the new LEDs, I don't think they'd be switched on at this early stage of assembly while blinds don't have the option of being turned off so will always be displaying something. they look like standard London blind displays to me, I believe they're generally fitted as a complete unit including blind displays when the buses are being built. |
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Post by VPL630 on May 31, 2018 11:02:57 GMT
There is a picture of a "Plaxton Panorama" double deck coach. I follow all things ADL/Plaxton closely and didn't know they were developing a double deck coach. In fact its not mentioned anywhere on their website. But clearly its being built - proof enough. Seems like it hasn't yet been formerly announced unless I missed it. Stagecoach Group have a few ordered |
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Post by allentc on May 31, 2018 12:56:39 GMT
There is a picture of a "Plaxton Panorama" double deck coach. I follow all things ADL/Plaxton closely and didn't know they were developing a double deck coach. In fact its not mentioned anywhere on their website. But clearly its being built - proof enough. Seems like it hasn't yet been formerly announced unless I missed it. I've just seen an announcement about it in this week's edition of Route One. |
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Post by cl54 on May 31, 2018 15:51:10 GMT
Those displays do appear to be box like units, I guess it is easy to install them prior to glazing. If they are the new ones (and I cannot tell), seems a shame that the number unit is separate so still stuck with fixed width regardless of if it is a single digit route number, or a Nxxx number, would have thought it could be one big unit All the route numbers have been spaced by Doug Rose according to the visible area. The height stays the same apart from the smaller N on night routes. |
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Post by cl54 on May 31, 2018 15:55:51 GMT
Those displays do appear to be box like units, I guess it is easy to install them prior to glazing. If they are the new ones (and I cannot tell), seems a shame that the number unit is separate so still stuck with fixed width regardless of if it is a single digit route number, or a Nxxx number, would have thought it could be one big unit Something on my casts doubt over the ones in the picture being the new LEDs, I don't think they'd be switched on at this early stage of assembly while blinds don't have the option of being turned off so will always be displaying something. It is unlikely that this is one of the buses with the Hannover displays. The 6 buses aren't due for delivery until July/August. In any case, if it was and the display was switched on you wouldn't be able to tell the difference. |
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Post by snowman on Jun 1, 2018 14:22:14 GMT
ADL launch Panorama coach and Panther LE ADL news link Lots of photos on link |
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