(18 Feb 2025, 8:43 pm)Andreos1 wrote Whilst I'm not condoning what is going on, the threats etc, this question around vehicle safety or engineering not doing what they need to do, isn't a new thing.

I remember the Cadets/Merits dash looking like a Christmas Tree.
I remember the wheel falling off a Purple Solar in Durham.
There were rumours of a Trident being in service with a knackered speedo. 
There was a Renown allocated to certain routes because it couldn't reverse... They're just the things discussed on here that I can remember. 

Theres many more stories not in the public domain too.

Personally, I think there's more to this than meets the eye. I'd not be surprised to hear that this was actually connected to the fall-out from the NF/BM school of people management and the recent strikes.

The Trident was 3889 if I recall, but that could be time catching up with me. I definitely remember 3889 being the first bus to be altered so that the handbrake had to be engaged for the doors to be opened after an incident whereby an old hand at Chester swung into a stop and opened the doors while still moving at speed led to an injured passenger. 

The Renown was 4920 which I seem to remember went through a period of being a fixed allocation to the 2A/2C as no reversing was required at either end.