(2 hours ago)Kuyoyo wrote 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).
I know I'm just using BusTimes so the usual cavaets, but there's 18 of the 64 Plates at Stockport isn't there? No arguments about the school buses though; I know the it's the same reason the E200's haven't been done.
Thanks for confirming, had a feeling they were still Stagecoach owned, wasn't 100% sure. No doubt some of them were meant to be up here I guess but I suppose we'll never find that out. Be interesting to see where they end up in the future though.