(13 Nov 2024, 8:00 pm)L469 YVK wrote Put it this way, the SPD's which replaced them on the 300 & 305 were a massive upgrade!
Ah I was talking about the Daimler Streetlite's there rather than the Excel's. I definitely didn't suffer one of those but considering all Optare vehicles are pretty pants I wouldn't want to know what an actual bad vehicle was like.
Those Ikarus things that ended up at Blyth from a similar era were bad enough.