(19 Dec 2016, 10:56 am)Michael wrote I think the Streetlites might arrive early January, with going in to service start of February.

Any idea on how many are currently at Wrightbus?

That would spoil the surprise, wouldn't it? 😛
I get excited with any sort of tension, even if it's over Streetlites...
If they've got an automatic gearbox that's functional, I think they'll be great buses. They're nippy, stick to the road like glue - at higher speeds and have awful leather seats which were removed from Stanley's driver cabs on request.
Aside from the horrible e-leather, what really lets them down is that the gearbox is supposedly too large. If it were a manual bus, it would be great. The bus changes up to 3rd when it shouldn't, in return it can't handle the size of the next gear up. Because it can't handle the gear, the RPM drops to below 500, when at the top of 2nd it was around 2050. So when the automatic computer decides that it needs to go back up a gear - to 2nd - it causes a huge shudder because it's changing such huge amounts of RPM in one go (amongst other things).
If the 3rd gear was a bit smaller, the transmission could handle the shift down to 3rd without having to come all of the way back up, a mere 8 seconds later.
Hopefully they've come up with some sort of workaround, and they'll be welcome at Stanley [SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH]

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