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Post by ServerKing on Apr 20, 2021 22:49:55 GMT
Be interesting to see if First City's like Leeds take any more Wright diesel buses. Buses mag shows a new Streetdeck single decker for Translink in Northern Ireland, some reason still with the tiny Streetlite engine I bet Arriva would buy some if they had the OM936 unit in it, I'm sure the SB200's are getting tired with daily thrashing across the Provinces
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Post by redexpress on Jun 7, 2021 14:45:48 GMT
Bamford are flogging off various unwanted bits and pieces inherited from Wrights - catalogue here.
Among the lots are the StreetAir demonstrator that ran with Go-Ahead as WES1 (LJ17THF), and an unidentfied London-spec StreetDeck (new style). All buses are for "spares and repairs", not runners.
Also quite a few new & unused hydrogen fuel cells, batteries etc.
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Post by SILENCED on Jun 7, 2021 15:56:28 GMT
Bamford are flogging off various unwanted bits and pieces inherited from Wrights - catalogue here.
Among the lots are the StreetAir demonstrator that ran with Go-Ahead as WES1 (LJ17THF), and an unidentfied London-spec StreetDeck (new style). All buses are for "spares and repairs", not runners.
Also quite a few new & unused hydrogen fuel cells, batteries etc.
Anyone know what the Wrightbus Glider was? Some kind of Eclipse 3 body, but on what?
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Post by LJ17THF on Jun 7, 2021 16:31:00 GMT
Bamford are flogging off various unwanted bits and pieces inherited from Wrights - catalogue here.
Among the lots are the StreetAir demonstrator that ran with Go-Ahead as WES1 (LJ17THF), and an unidentfied London-spec StreetDeck (new style). All buses are for "spares and repairs", not runners.
Also quite a few new & unused hydrogen fuel cells, batteries etc.
Anyone know what the Wrightbus Glider was? Some kind of Eclipse 3 body, but on what? There was something like that for Ulsterbus a couple months ago, if I recall correctly it used a Daimler OM936 and was an integral. I'm not sure if this is the same bus. I'm personally interested in that Streetdeck - what was that going to be used for? It doesn't seem to have a London operator's interior, so I can only assume it was going to be a demonstrator. Shame it's only getting sold for spares and repairs, it looks like it's in great condition.
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Post by SILENCED on Jun 7, 2021 16:37:52 GMT
Anyone know what the Wrightbus Glider was? Some kind of Eclipse 3 body, but on what? There was something like that for Ulsterbus a couple months ago, if I recall correctly it used a Daimler OM936 and was an integral. I'm not sure if this is the same bus. I'm personally interested in that Streetdeck - what was that going to be used for? It doesn't seem to have a London operator's interior, so I can only assume it was going to be a demonstrator. Shame it's only getting sold for spares and repairs, it looks like it's in great condition. Weren't the Ulsterbus Gliders made by Van Hool?
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Post by SILENCED on Jun 7, 2021 16:58:56 GMT
Anyone know what the Wrightbus Glider was? Some kind of Eclipse 3 body, but on what? There was something like that for Ulsterbus a couple months ago, if I recall correctly it used a Daimler OM936 and was an integral. I'm not sure if this is the same bus. I'm personally interested in that Streetdeck - what was that going to be used for? It doesn't seem to have a London operator's interior, so I can only assume it was going to be a demonstrator. Shame it's only getting sold for spares and repairs, it looks like it's in great condition. From a quick Google search, spares and repairs means the vehicles is currently unroadworthy, but nothing to stop you doing the later to bring it up to roadworthy status if you so choose, if it might be economical.
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Post by LJ17THF on Jun 7, 2021 17:55:10 GMT
There was something like that for Ulsterbus a couple months ago, if I recall correctly it used a Daimler OM936 and was an integral. I'm not sure if this is the same bus. I'm personally interested in that Streetdeck - what was that going to be used for? It doesn't seem to have a London operator's interior, so I can only assume it was going to be a demonstrator. Shame it's only getting sold for spares and repairs, it looks like it's in great condition. Weren't the Ulsterbus Gliders made by Van Hool? My mistake, sorry, it was poorly worded. I was referencing this, which a Flickr image claims was called the StreetSaloon. I'd assume that it was an early mock up of the model.
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Post by redexpress on Jun 7, 2021 20:03:14 GMT
I'm personally interested in that Streetdeck - what was that going to be used for? It doesn't seem to have a London operator's interior, so I can only assume it was going to be a demonstrator. Shame it's only getting sold for spares and repairs, it looks like it's in great condition. Looking at Bus Lists on the Web, there's a dual-door StreetDeck registered SK19EZV, although the body and chassis numbers indicate that it was probably built much earlier. Googling the reg number doesn't give anything. Maybe it was indeed going to be a demonstrator, but hadn't been used by the time the company went into administration.
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Post by sp17 on Jun 29, 2021 23:51:15 GMT
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Post by Ts_As on Jun 30, 2021 4:13:52 GMT
Looks like there’ll finally be a variety of electrics, no more boring E400EVs but it’s good since we can all see Arriva, GAL, Metroline, RATP, and Tower Transit going for it but I wonder when MCV will reveal their electrics
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Post by snowman on Jun 30, 2021 6:09:16 GMT
Also seems the double decks have been renamed as hydroliner (hydrogen) or electroliner (electric) A large part (by value) is imported, the hydrogen fuel cells are made by Ballard of Canada, the batteries by Forsee of France I’m a bit suprised at reference on link to 454Kw power (that’s 608 horsepower), about 4 times power of diesel Streetdeck
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Post by bus12451 on Jun 30, 2021 14:06:21 GMT
Also seems the double decks have been renamed as hydroliner (hydrogen) or electroliner (electric) A large part (by value) is imported, the hydrogen fuel cells are made by Ballard of Canada, the batteries by Forsee of France I’m a bit suprised at reference on link to 454Kw power (that’s 608 horsepower), about 4 times power of diesel Streetdeck And the standard diesel StreetDeck is now known as the StreetDeck Ultroliner. The diesel StreetLite has also been renamed as the StreetLite Ultroliner and their newest heavyweight single decker is now called the GB Hawk. Wrightbus has updated their website which now lists all of their latest products (including specification brochures) - www.wrightbus.com/"our range of buses" on the main page suggests that zero-emission single decker buses are coming soon. I'm not sure if the StreetAir EV and StreetLite EV have been done away with or if they'll be making a return? 454kw is referring to the battery capacity of the Electroliner so it should say 454kWh.
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Post by southlondonbus on Jun 30, 2021 14:10:35 GMT
Also seems the double decks have been renamed as hydroliner (hydrogen) or electroliner (electric) A large part (by value) is imported, the hydrogen fuel cells are made by Ballard of Canada, the batteries by Forsee of France I’m a bit suprised at reference on link to 454Kw power (that’s 608 horsepower), about 4 times power of diesel Streetdeck And the standard diesel StreetDeck is now known as the StreetDeck Ultroliner. The diesel StreetLite has also been renamed as the StreetLite Ultroliner and their newest heavyweight single decker is now called the GB Hawk. Wrightbus has updated their website which now lists all of their latest products (including specification brochures) - www.wrightbus.com/"our range of buses" on the main page suggests that zero-emission single decker buses are coming soon. I'm not sure if the StreetAir EV and StreetLite EV have been done away with or if they'll be making a return? 454kw is referring to the battery capacity of the Electroliner so it should say 454kWh. Be good if they could get an order as would provide an alternative to the City with increased orders for electric buses.
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Post by vjaska on Jun 30, 2021 15:34:06 GMT
Also seems the double decks have been renamed as hydroliner (hydrogen) or electroliner (electric) A large part (by value) is imported, the hydrogen fuel cells are made by Ballard of Canada, the batteries by Forsee of France I’m a bit suprised at reference on link to 454Kw power (that’s 608 horsepower), about 4 times power of diesel Streetdeck And the standard diesel StreetDeck is now known as the StreetDeck Ultroliner. The diesel StreetLite has also been renamed as the StreetLite Ultroliner and their newest heavyweight single decker is now called the GB Hawk. Wrightbus has updated their website which now lists all of their latest products (including specification brochures) - www.wrightbus.com/"our range of buses" on the main page suggests that zero-emission single decker buses are coming soon. I'm not sure if the StreetAir EV and StreetLite EV have been done away with or if they'll be making a return? 454kw is referring to the battery capacity of the Electroliner so it should say 454kWh. Was it really necessary of them to rename the different variants like this rather than simply have electric Streetdeck, hydrogen Streetdeck & Streetdeck for the diesel version? I know Wrightbus have done this in the past to denote different chassis on the single deckers but the double deck range stopped this practice with the Gemini2 & Gemini3.
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Post by SILENCED on Jun 30, 2021 17:06:29 GMT
And the standard diesel StreetDeck is now known as the StreetDeck Ultroliner. The diesel StreetLite has also been renamed as the StreetLite Ultroliner and their newest heavyweight single decker is now called the GB Hawk. Wrightbus has updated their website which now lists all of their latest products (including specification brochures) - www.wrightbus.com/"our range of buses" on the main page suggests that zero-emission single decker buses are coming soon. I'm not sure if the StreetAir EV and StreetLite EV have been done away with or if they'll be making a return? 454kw is referring to the battery capacity of the Electroliner so it should say 454kWh. Was it really necessary of them to rename the different variants like this rather than simply have electric Streetdeck, hydrogen Streetdeck & Streetdeck for the diesel version? I know Wrightbus have done this in the past to denote different chassis on the single deckers but the double deck range stopped this practice with the Gemini2 & Gemini3. Think it is just the new owners stamping their mark on the business, moving on from the Wright's. The 'liner names sound very Neoplan to me, generally a name associated with quality. Personally I like the rebrand and product range ... just need FCEV and BEV single decks to be added to the range. Where are all you death of Streetlte range sayers now?
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