Diamond Bus North West

[gilesbus1]

RE: Diamond Bus North West

(07/09/2019 18:41)AlexBus12 Wrote:  Was told by Giles Fearnley that the funding would be transferred to Rotala upon the purchase of Bolton. However things could have changed

You may be right, what I understood was that they had never been ordered and no money had been recieved for them and that the bid was based on them being jointly charged with Vantage vehicles on the basis that both sets would be garaged together, obviously that is no longer the case. I guess its a matter of wait and see what does happen. Suspect Mr Burnham may push for them to emerge as he lobbied for the funding for all the new electric buses that are due to Central Government. Although Rotala has no experience with Electric vehicles at this current point in time and hasn't ever announced anything for green vehicles since it had a block of Hybrid Volvo B5LH's at Preston and Optare Versa's but they where all on lease and the Optare Versa's have gone and I was also led to believe that the Volvo B5LH's at Preston would also be going off lease possibly this year! I think Rotala's policy is the buy MicroHybrids in future with some sort of supported funding source?