(06 Jan 2018, 10:24 am)Dan 6327 and 6328 are outside - delivered between Christmas and New Year.
6329 is inside, being branded today.
Another Coaster should be branded today - 6063 off memory, but may be wrong on that one.
(06 Jan 2018, 11:38 am)Tom 6063 has already been branded according to the news.
It was 6064 (I was close!)
6061 branded 15/12/2017, 6056 18/12/2017, 6060 and 6063 between Christmas and New Year, 6062 on 04/01/2018 and 6064 yesterday.
6066 should be branded on Monday, following repaint this week, along with another Angel double-deck.
(06 Jan 2018, 11:16 am)Michael How long does it take SM to brand a bus?
Saltmeadows Road don't fit the vinyls to branded buses, just the small amount of vinyl on buses in fleet livery.
An external company, local to us based in Pelaw, fit the vinyls to branded buses - they received a small mention on the Daft as a Brush livery, as they designed the livery and fitted the vinyls together in partnership with Go North East and Daft as a Brush. The designs are usually done by another local company whose portfolio contains a lot of work for Disney, Nickelodeon and Coca Cola, based near the Tyne Bridge.
The length of time it takes to fit the vinyls depends on how detailed the design is, and how many fiddley bits there are! The recent Angel double-decks also contain more vinyl inside (covering the two back windows, and a blue sky vinyl along the upper-deck ceiling) which adds to the time. I would expect that the team of fitters would have been at Saltmeadows for around 10-12 hours to fit an Angel and a Coaster yesterday.
