(18 May 2016, 8:53 pm)S813 FVK wrote I'd much rather have a Solar over a President, too but I think it was said that the B7s were allocated over the solars was because of the shorter wheelbase for getting around the estates? If so, I think that's another reason why Solars wouldn't be suitable for the routes (not suggesting for one second that they can't operate the routes as they have in the past).
Have 4961, 4962 and 4963 been used on the local services before, as they could be tried out