Repaints and refurbishments 2023

[don]

Remember the upstairs rear bench seat on Fleetlines? Absolutely rock hard. If the bus took a corner too quickly you'd slide from one end to the other.

Yeah - I think they may have been introduced in the mid 70s owing to the level of seat slashing occurring at the back, upstairs on Fleetlines. I remember when I was at school, there were lads who had their Levi's jeans patched in red leatherette! All the rage IIRC.

The entire seat was solid plastic in matching red on the ones you're referring to! Around the same time, a couple of Fleetlines were fitted with anti attack screens for the driver - at least one was a grilled affair rather like a fence at a zoo!!!! They were not liked!! 

[Tony]

Yeah - I think they may have been introduced in the mid 70s owing to the level of seat slashing occurring at the back, upstairs on Fleetlines. I remember when I was at school, there were lads who had their Levi's jeans patched in red leatherette! All the rage IIRC.

The entire seat was solid plastic in matching red on the ones you're referring to! Around the same time, a couple of Fleetlines were fitted with anti attack screens for the driver - at least one was a grilled affair rather like a fence at a zoo!!!! They were not liked!!

The grills were all detachable they were never fitted permanently, just loose in the cab for the driver to use if wanted

[2900]

Awful things. Sweaty in the summer, cold in the winter, ask any of the drivers who have had to sit in them when cabs seats made of it

Yeap totally awful experience, worst cab seat ever 

[2900]

The platinums receiving a refurbishment, will they be getting the same leather and cloth replacement for the seats ( the cloth being the new moquette) or will the seat just be all over cloth? (Like what happened to 47** high back seat E400s)

I would imagine so , why introduce another cost buying in fake leather , plus the first batch of ENVIRO 400mmc's are basically 10 years old , platinum doesn't mean anything now does it. 
People moan it's a sea of boring grey , you could say the same back in the day when you had blue and grey Metros everywhere. 

[Westy]

When the 529 Platinums eventually get a 'tart up', is there any chance of the out of date 'connections' information finally being removed?