HTL Buses

[Quackdave]

RE: HTL Buses

(22/09/2012 11:15)V671 DVU Wrote:  I'm sure they were B16F, this new one also has 2+1 seating and the official capacity on it is 16 seats. I'm sure someone will be able to confirm the capacity of the original batch!

I thought they had a triple seat across the back, then two forward facing double seats on the nearside, and five sideways-facing folding seats along the offside (three up the step, two down in the low-floor bit). If correct that would make 12, though my memory is somewhat hazy.

I think DK03 CWX may still be in use, it doesn't seem that long ago I saw it on the 883, so will look out for it and attempt to confirm.

Interestingly, BX12 DZG has a tax band of £220, whereas DE52 OJS and DK03 CWX/CWZ are all at the lower rate of £165. At first, I thought this proved my theory, but then I realised that the threshold for the higher rate is actually 18 seats including the driver's, i.e. 17 or more passenger seats!

Hopefully the remaining four will be green, since they're being purchased new, whereas I believe this one was previously a demonstrator? My wife certainly hopes so, since she catches the 883 quite often, and finds the white ones look too much like vans, so that it's easy to let them go past by mistake!

Other HTL observations today: W602 PTO on 266 and W603 PTO on 173/4 (I think it was that way round!), also KX08 HME on 173/4, and YJ61 MOF and MOU on 163/263.