(02 Jan 2023, 10:20 am)DeltaMan wrote A certain Sir Brian Souter was a big player with Alexander Dennis until 2019. I am sure it's a coincidence that the vast majority of bus orders made by Stagecoach were Alexander bodied.

Similar to Arriva who were (are?) the supplier for DAF/VDL vehicles in the UK hence why they used to pretty much exclusively order them until Wright ditched them and created their own chassis instead with the Streetdeck.

It's a reason why you rarely see them with other operators with them bar a few Volvo Merit's to hide what they were really were - they're actually Cadets.

Shame as they're superior vehicles aswell.

Also all 3 operators have:
Enviro 400 MMC's: Arriva at Ashington; GNE at Riverside and Consett; and Stagecoach at Statyford and Walkergate
Enviro 200 MMC's: Arriva at Darlington; GNE at Riverside; and Stagecoach at Slatyford and Stockton
Enviro 400: Arriva at Ashington, Durham, Blyth, Walkergate, Durham and Darlington; GNE at Riverside, Consett and Deptford and Stagecoach at South Shields, Walkergate, Slatyford, Stockton and Sunderland