Happy 18th Birthday Arriva Merseyside

[Bevan Price]

RE: Happy 18th Birthday Arriva Merseyside

(21/02/2018 22:28)B10B6514 Wrote:  10 of the Marshall Darts were impounded, before entry into service, before the takeover because of MTL's dire financial troubles to secure payment. Think they were 7663-5/7-73.
They were also bought for a knockdown £55,000 each- whether that was excellent bargaining by MTL's finance department or plain desperation from Marshall I'm not sure, considering the B10Bs were about £115k some 4 years previously.

MTL's big mistake was getting involved with rail franchise operations. They might still be around if they had confined their interests to buses.