Go Goodwins

[Citibus]

RE: Go Goodwins
Optare Solo YJ59GGE is now numbered 1023 - was it 23 before? https://twitter.com/littlegembus/status/...9395631104

Recent coach purchases re-registered are

Neoplan Starliner MF11LUE is now WEZ 60
Mercedes Benz Tourismo BF61HBZ is now C11 ECB

Any idea of the fleet numbers of these two?

[ant17612]

RE: Go Goodwins
2 Enviro400 MMC's are confirmed in build by the latest Buses mag.

[Mayneway]

RE: Go Goodwins

(24/12/2016 22:59)ant17612 Wrote:  2 Enviro400 MMC's are confirmed in build by the latest Buses mag.

I knew I had read it somewhere. Be interesting to see what livery these turn up in. I notice on thier twitter account that even some of the yellow school buses have gained little gem fronts so it looks like everything bar the coaches is going into the retro livery.

[knutstransport]

RE: Go Goodwins

(24/12/2016 23:44)Mayneway Wrote:  I knew I had read it somewhere. Be interesting to see what livery these turn up in. I notice on thier twitter account that even some of the yellow school buses have gained little gem fronts so it looks like everything bar the coaches is going into the retro livery.

Perhaps they'll have a special 'Giant Gem' livery

[Nicholas]

RE: Go Goodwins

(29/12/2016 12:50)knutstransport Wrote:  Perhaps they'll have a special 'Giant Gem' livery

Or to repeat history again, "Super Gem" would be the correct format This is what was used on the 571/572 in Bolton when the routes were converted back to decker operation after GM Buses realised that minibuses were too small for that particular route (although still on very high frequency).

[ant17612]

RE: Go Goodwins
The Enviro400 MMC's have been delivered in coach spec Blue/Red colours and are registered YX66WLH/WLJ.

[knutstransport]

RE: Go Goodwins
Do they have any timetable for changing their operating name? It seems most of their buses are in Little Gem livery (with a few still in Go Goodwins livery) but TfGM still advertise their services as being Go Goodwins so if the idea was to separate the two businesses so that people didn't get put off hiring coaches due to bad experiences with the bus operations I don't see how that's been achieved yet.

[NorthernCounties]

RE: Go Goodwins

(21/01/2017 13:50)knutstransport Wrote:  Do they have any timetable for changing their operating name? It seems most of their buses are in Little Gem livery (with a few still in Go Goodwins livery) but TfGM still advertise their services as being Go Goodwins so if the idea was to separate the two businesses so that people didn't get put off hiring coaches due to bad experiences with the bus oper.ations I don't see how that's been achieved yet.

All I know is they've said it is becoming the little gem bus company "soon".
First any of us will know is when its posted in the 'notices and proceedings' on the tc's website

[Mayneway]

RE: Go Goodwins

(21/01/2017 20:18)Dentonian Wrote:  I might have missed something earlier in the thread.........or indeed anytime over the last 23 years. However, if I remember rightly, when GM Buses was split (before sale), GMPTE retained the copyright to the "Little Gem" name. Of course, it may well have been sold off since, on the basis that few people would associate with "GM Buses", nowadays.

Are you sure they copywrote any of the brands? Don't forget UK North famously not only used the GM Buses brand and logo but also trademarked it, at around the same time I beeline a certain enthusiast copywrote the GMB North and The big orange.
If GMB had copy written the brand would they not have done the full brand 'I'm a little Gem'?

[Mayneway]

RE: Go Goodwins

(21/01/2017 15:55)NorthernCounties Wrote:  All I know is they've said it is becoming the little gem bus company "soon".
First any of us will know is when its posted in the 'notices and proceedings' on the tc's website

They have already changed the operating and Fleetnames on the Goodwins Classic licence to 'Little Gem Bus company' but as yet all the services are still run on the other licence.
I also noticed last week when I spotted one of thier Solos that the driver was wearing a GoGoodwins jumper and tie. As brand changes go it's extremely slow and messy and perhaps slightly confusing to passengers.