(27 Aug 2014, 7:34 pm)Robert wrote They arent fully hybrid but i doubt that if they werent micro hybrids arriva would chose to place them in Standard Livery rather than their hybrid livery like the 308. Arriva will have tied in with the 308 livery and the fact that its also a part-hybrid (which obviously isnt enough when alone to place the outstanding batch of streetlites for services 35/35A and 23 in the same livery) to place it into this livery. In my opinion (which is different to yours), there is more than 1 reason for them been into this livery with service integration being 1 of them.
The integration of the buses on the same corridor as the 308 is the only reason for these buses being delivered in the hybrid livery. As you say the 8 for the 23/35 will be in standard livery and the rest are in Sapphire.