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we have one man painting and two bodybuilders .some difference eh .

Just how big is the paint shop? they seem to a lot of buses at the same time .

its true to say that most hanover displays dont have not in service programed into them . lots of drivers use the other obscure blinds like happy birthday, congratulations and merry christmas. they seem to be getting round to re-programming them now ,

I was told they were used for type training, but @JIM C will tell you the definite answer.

As ross say it was used as type training for the drivers . its gone now as it was,nt one of ours .it was here for the open day in june and was kept for a few weeks .

when? as my boss,es dont seem to know yet.

Tony any idea of the fleet numbers for the 5 streetlites due in september?.

should be 1774to1787 are heading north [not unlike the 60/70s livery .]see my small photo .

The winning livery design was  ;A ; With 82% of the vote .it was announced today .

Training bus 7067 (Y722CJW) in White?

Will the first buses in the new XPlore Dundee livery be the new Wright single deckers?

7067 has been reinstated temporally to service to cover an unexpected wiithdrawal.[7138]

I too arent very impressed with the new name . But as long as getting paid by them i,ll suffer it .

Open day today at the depot ,the public voted for a new livery [2 tone green] with the name XPLORE DUNDEE] We will still be part on the group nothing will change apart from the name .Its to bring back a local identity to the service.

Jim c, which Volvo B7,s are you referring to

The single deck 61/12 reg ones .

The problem is that National Express should have kept the West Midlands and Dundee operations totally seperate, therefore any new buses buses required by Dundee could stay with them and all the West Midland buses would either be used down here or withdrawn.

The same happened here in the West Midlands for example when WB received the Darts ex Travel London. They weren't that old, but even a few years of service in London and they can be tired and worn.

when we sold our company to twm we were assured it would be run totally independent from the parent company ,but as the years went by more and more things were decided by the management in birmingham

To be honest, i think they should transfer Presidents and Omnidumps to Dundee, the B7Rles are to good for Dundee!!

what makes you think that .i have been driving buses here for 40 years and can safely say these volvo B7s are the worst new buses we have ever had .the scanias  were much better .

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they will be routed depending on where they are in the depot ,there is no set route for them .