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Post by snowman on Dec 27, 2019 8:39:36 GMT
Diamond Bus is said to be the recipients of an order for over 90 Streetdecks. There have been some news stories that Streetdecks are only bus type being made currently (not that many staff currently). I am guessing no single decks, no Volvo chassis hybrids Had been negligible orders for streetAir, and lack of electric bus didn’t help Production is due to start properly in January, but is going to have to start from virtually nil volume, and still unclear how many staff are being taken on. Likely to be lot less than the 1800 at peak
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Post by M1104 on Dec 27, 2019 11:12:25 GMT
Diamond Bus is said to be the recipients of an order for over 90 Streetdecks. There have been some news stories that Streetdecks are only bus type being made currently (not that many staff currently). I am guessing no single decks, no Volvo chassis hybrids Had been negligible orders for streetAir, and lack of electric bus didn’t help Production is due to start properly in January, but is going to have to start from virtually nil volume, and still unclear how many staff are being taken on. Likely to be lot less than the 1800 at peak Are the engine spec's now with the 6.7L six cylinder Cummins? I believe at least one non-London firm has that variant but not sure if it's now a standard fitting or optional from the 4.5L four cylinder variant.
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Post by ServerKing on Dec 27, 2019 12:45:33 GMT
There have been some news stories that Streetdecks are only bus type being made currently (not that many staff currently). I am guessing no single decks, no Volvo chassis hybrids Had been negligible orders for streetAir, and lack of electric bus didn’t help Production is due to start properly in January, but is going to have to start from virtually nil volume, and still unclear how many staff are being taken on. Likely to be lot less than the 1800 at peak Are the engine spec's now with the 6.7L six cylinder Cummins? I believe at least one non-London firm has that variant but not sure if it's now a standard fitting or optional from the 4.5L four cylinder variant. I think the original Wrightbus collapsed owing Daimler quite a chunk of cash, so perhaps Cummins (as Bamford / JCB always went with Cummins) is the preferred engine choice now. Would be good, as Cummins engines are more reliable. I think most of the 227 Citaros had reliability issues before being replaced. Any idiot could see the 4 cylinder engine would struggle to move a decker... Hopefully proper performance could take the fight to ADL. Engine choice was only the 5.1 4 pot, but after selling some air conditioned ones to South America and Hong Kong, the Citaro 6 cylinder from Daimler was an option. The high-revving screamer from the SB200 would be great (Cummins ISB) Go North East was going to try a Citaro engined Streetdeck before the firm collapsed.
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Post by snowman on Jan 7, 2020 10:00:33 GMT
New Wrightbus (Bamford) bus offeringA 12m hydrogen single deck, price under €375k (£318k) A 10.9m hydrogen double deck, price under €410k (£348k) A 18m hydrogen artic (from 2021), price under €465k (£395k)
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Post by southlondonbus on Jan 7, 2020 16:45:37 GMT
The hydrogen DD is actually quite a reasonable price. Cheaper then the NB4L were and mroe in line with a hybrid price compared with an all electric which apparently are more like 500k. Let's hope the ones on the 7 prove to be successful.
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Post by snowman on Feb 6, 2020 6:49:09 GMT
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Post by BK15AZR on Feb 6, 2020 11:24:10 GMT
Those tri-axle ones are for Citybus in Hong Kong. I wonder what has happened to those 50 Streetdecks for Kowloon Motor Bus in Hong Kong? Some of them should have been built but there hasn't been any news whether they'll be delivered...the demonstrator in Hong Kong has also been taken off road after it entered service for just a few days in Oct! Not sure if it'll ever return to the road.
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Post by snowman on Feb 6, 2020 11:45:50 GMT
Those tri-axle ones are for Citybus in Hong Kong. I wonder what has happened to those 50 Streetdecks for Kowloon Motor Bus in Hong Kong? Some of them should have been built but there hasn't been any news whether they'll be delivered...the demonstrator in Hong Kong has also been taken off road after it entered service for just a few days in Oct! Not sure if it'll ever return to the road. One photo has a row of black and white streetdecks in the background, are these some of the Rotala Diamond bus order
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2020 13:01:52 GMT
Diamonds bus have ordered 128 Streetdecks for delivery by the end of the year.
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Post by riverside on Feb 18, 2020 18:53:28 GMT
Tonight the BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight team have a programme investigating the collapse of Wrightbus. A brief report was shown on the Newsline programme at 6.30pm this evening. The programme alleges that Geoff wright gave over £1m to his Green Pastures church even though Wrightbus accounts were showing approximately a £14m loss. The money was channeled via Cornerstone. If you have Sky you can see Spotlight on channel 953 at 10.35pm tonight. Should be an interesting watch.
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Post by richard on Feb 18, 2020 22:12:12 GMT
Tonight the BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight team have a programme investigating the collapse of Wrightbus. A brief report was shown on the Newsline programme at 6.30pm this evening. The programme alleges that Geoff wright gave over £1m to his Green Pastures church even though Wrightbus accounts were showing approximately a £14m loss. The money was channeled via Cornerstone. If you have Sky you can see Spotlight on channel 953 at 10.35pm tonight. Should be an interesting watch. Not forgetting BBC iplayer 😉
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Post by riverside on Feb 19, 2020 8:18:06 GMT
Another excellent investigation by the BBC Northern Ireland spotlight team. Basically it boiled down to Jeff Wright asking himself whether he loved God or buses more and in the end he chose God. From then on his eye was more on the building of his Green Pastures superchurch than Wrightbus. The mixed blessing of the Borismaster featured in the programme as did a man (whose name I have forgot) from London Reconnections. The Cornerstone company was used to move money from Wrightbus to Green Pastures. The programme was 1 hour long and was an interesting live ride. Spotlight arrived at the televisual stop on time and seemed to progress well until about two thirds through the journey it came to a complete stop. Viewers were left sitting wandering what was going on. A voice kept announcing that there was a problem that was being fixed but many of us feared the dreaded words 'This programme terminates here' and we would be transferred to whatever followed behind. After at least 5 or more minutes the controller sorted things out and the programme got back on its way, reaching its terminus behind schedule. So the viewing experience was just like riding a London bus. Kind of appropriate.
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Post by LK65EBO on Feb 20, 2020 15:53:42 GMT
SE192 on the 39 but back blind showing 493. Wrong thread?
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Post by george on Feb 20, 2020 15:57:04 GMT
SE192 on the 39 but back blind showing 493. Wrong thread? My apologies. Genuine mistake will delete.
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Post by redbus on Mar 8, 2020 19:42:25 GMT
The Telegraph has interesting interview with Jo Bamford who bought Wrightbus. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/03/08/jcb-heir-wrightbus-owner-jo-bamfordwe-can-sell-hydrogen-bus/ It is behind their paywall, but I understand a few interesting points are :- - Wrightbus is now employing nearly 700 people
- They will produce an electric battery bus because the market demands it
- They will produce hydrogen buses and believe the UK can have a competitive advantage here, whilst the UK currently has no competitive advantage in batteries.
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