(13 Jan 2014, 4:57 pm)CatsFast101 wrote So did GNE put the flipdot ones in from spares?
Yup. They'll have a load of spare flipdots from the likes of SPDs etc.
You'll find there's a good few ex-GNE buses which are sent to scrap which actually retain the flipdots too. Assume they must have that many now (from removing in the past), they needn't bother with removing them.