(02 Aug 2020, 11:02 pm)mb134 wrote To be honest there's been a general trend of the industry moving away from Wright. Build quality went to pot a number of years ago now, and you quickly saw First and Arriva move away, followed by the likes of Go Ahead, and now even Transdev and Lothian. 

Then if you begin to look into the products - single deck you have an E200 with superior build quality compared to a Streetlite which *still* has build quality issues nearly a decade in. Then the E400 has that 6.7L Cummins engine which has proven itself over and over as a very reliable unit, in comparison to a smaller and less proven Daimler unit in the Streetdeck. 

Bamford Bus is also still a relatively unknown quantity - if a company is spending millions on a batch of buses do they want build quality they can trust with ADL, or not really know what's going to turn up (if it turns up!) with Wright? 

I think it says it all really when you've got Transdev Blazefield going for E400s as their next double deck order over the Wright product.

Hasn't Volvo now stopped supplying Wright for any new vehicles so the B5TL is no longer available with them so they had to change vehicles anyway. I could be wrong but this could be the main reason they've pulled away in a similar sense that Arriva may have moved since there's no longer a DAF/VDL combo available. Sure I read that somewhere, apoligies if not true.

If it's true about Volvo be interesting to see what Lothian purchase as their whole fleet is Volvo.

It's a shame that Scania pulled out the UK with the Omnicity (Citywide) they were ideal for longer routes instead of Streetlites where a DD wasn't needed.