(Yesterday, 10:48 pm)Storx wrote Always wonder whether the Stockport depot fiasco screwed everything up and half of the buses still stuck in Manchester were meant to come up here. Obviously been years so not really an excuse anymore mind. The 64/65/16 Plate E400MMC's clearly aren't staying as they're not being repainted.
The 64 plates, bar a small handful, are based at Little Hulton depot for school contracts in the Bolton and Wigan areas - vehicles used exclusively on the school franchises don't have to wear Bee Network livery hence why these haven't been painted. 10429, the example in the Armed Forces Covenant livery, has some sort of special dispensary to keep that livery despite being used on main Bee Network work. As for the rest of the vehicles at Stockport, despite all the older MMCs there still being Stagecoach-owned (except for the 17 and 69 plate examples), they have been modified internally with the TfGM-madated Next Stop Announcement system (from Mobitec - despite the vast majority of the Manchester fleets having standardised on Hanover displays).