New Deliveries / New Livery & Branding Discussion

[Stevo]

The trouble was earlier vehicles were often reallocated in, small seemingly random, batches, so it was very difficult to know which vehicles were at which garages. So much better now.

[don]

The advantage of having small batches (and certainly back in the early 80s) was the burden for maintenance - be it routine or more substantial like recertification (required until the mid 80s) - requiring major bodywork attention) was no one garage would have too much burden at one time of vehicles away in works or require loans from elsewhere to cover. Whether it's linked I don't know but WMPTE and particularly Dudley garage got into major problems with the Ministry in the late 70s/early 80s owing to maintenance issues - no doubt there were a combination of reasons, including utilisation requirements not making enough buses available for maintenance, but the result was swapping all the Leyland engined Fleetlines (including 6301-6315) for Gardner with other garages - this may also have contributed to the change in approach to new vehicle allocations. The 6301-6420 batch had been shared in large batches mostly between Wolverhampton, Dudley, Hartshill and Stourbridge.

I well remember Oldbury receiving 2841 as a one off. HL also received odd ones or twos, the numbers of which escape me for now but 2860 rings a bell!!

[2900]

I can recall as school kid during the 80s 86-90 I used the 120/128 from Oldbury to Langley me and mates used to point out brand new bus today F plated 3000 series metrobus they used to  look really smart back then, at that time I saw them only 128/9 service , the brown moquette trim very coach like, there was only a few of them never saw them on the 120 service which was always fleet liner.
Much later I learned Hockley operated the 128/9 so no fleet liners and Dudley for the 120
I can also remember the disappointment on how appalling these 3000 series were to drive except for 3088/90 were decent though.

[cardew]

Way off topic I know but the allocation of the first batch of Nationals always confused me, the very definition of one here, one there. I only recently compiled what I believe to be the actual list, I will post (in a new topic for tidiness) if anyone wants me to.

[B.C Driver]

Personally as much as large blocks of fleet numbers make things neat, I also like a few odd ones scattered into the mix.

[The Real 4778]

Personally as much as large blocks of fleet numbers make things neat, I also like a few odd ones scattered into the mix.

Quite.  I never thought bus allocations would be exacerbating people's OCD, unless of course these contributors are having a joke. 

Back in the day, having twos and threes, singletons and cast-offs was part of the fun with garage allocations. 

These days it's the equivalent of modern art, where a canvas is one big beige rectangle and a bus garage runs three 50+ unrelieved blocks of consecutive numbers. 

[SK68MEV]

Pesenett platinums arriving at bc for ticket machines as Yardley wood ones being shipped to Wolverhampton as there's not enough room persuming

[Trident 4609]

Pesenett platinums arriving at bc for ticket machines as Yardley wood ones being shipped to Wolverhampton as there's not enough room persuming

Somehow i don't think you can 'ship' a bus into Wolverhampton...

[SK68MEV]

Somehow i don't think you can 'ship' a bus into Wolverhampton...

meant driven I always say shipped

[2206]

Somehow i don't think you can 'ship' a bus into Wolverhampton...

There's nothing wrong with what he said. He doesn't literally mean  that it was sent on a ship.
There's nothing wrong with that statement.
Check the Google definitions of "Ship/Shipped":
"send by some other means of transport or by mail.
"he was captured and shipped off to a labour camp""

[BK63 YWP]

There's nothing wrong with what he said. He doesn't literally mean  that it was sent on a ship.
There's nothing wrong with that statement.
Check the Google definitions of "Ship/Shipped":
"send by some other means of transport or by mail.
"he was captured and shipped off to a labour camp""

It's a joke....

[Trident 4609]

There's nothing wrong with what he said. He doesn't literally mean  that it was sent on a ship.
There's nothing wrong with that statement.
Check the Google definitions of "Ship/Shipped":
"send by some other means of transport or by mail.
"he was captured and shipped off to a labour camp""

Yeah. Thanks for explaining that. However you wasted your time. My comment was just light hearted and tongue in cheek.

@SL 16 YPN Cheers.

[Jack D]

When are they releasing an X70 branding?

[winston]

When are they releasing an X70 branding?

There's nothing to put X70 branding on yet, as the buses for it have yet to be delivered.

[Tony]

When are they releasing an X70 branding?

They're not