(12 Apr 2014, 7:47 pm)Davey Bowyer wrote I'm surprised that Stagecoach is ordering with Wrights and Volvo. That's a very wierd turn of events with Arriva going in the opposite way with regards to the E400 order but Wrights no longer build the DB300 integral although essentially, the ADL and VDL chassis both come with the same engine but just built and tuned slightly differently.

Only reason for the Volvo order is due to delivery time issues with ADL over ordering E400Hs. They are likely to be the only examples order (and the ordering of the ADL-bodied examples is also odd, as they will be the first examples bodied by someone other than Wrights and the first ADL-bodied Volvos for 5 years for the mainland).