First Manchester

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RE: First Manchester

(22/02/2019 19:44)iMarkeh Wrote:  No no, I fully agree, if you can't state who won etc, that is fully understandable. I mean it more in the respect that we all know there are upcoming statements regarding the depot sales. Has something been said internally to give a hint or is what was said based off what we all know.

I'm not quite sure what you are getting at here, or whether it is a question posed to the Forum or me in particular. However, in case its the latter, but to clarify for the forum's benefit:

1. I do not work for a bus company.

2. I have no contacts at First and haven't had for a couple of years

3. My only contacts with a couple of other companies are of non-senior staff and all are active on one or more forums/usergroups that I am on, so I rarely get info ahead of anyone else - and if I do, its about minutiae such as depot re-allocations. And to take a topical example, if someone were to reveal exactly which Enviro400s transferred from Rusholme to Bolton last month, I doubt very much it would scupper whatever announcement is made on Monday.

As regards this particular case, different posters on at least two of those forums have stated they expect an announcement about Bolton to made on Monday, but one hinted a decision on Oldham may not yet have been finalised. Let me re-iterate, neither of these sources dropped any hint whatsoever of what exactly the announcement would be, never mind a potential buyer. The only rumours/speculation about buyers of either/both remaining depots has come through gossip on this and other forums, based on who might want the ops and who would be allowed by the CMA to buy.