(31 May 2013, 3:19 pm)dans_bus_photos wrote So your saying a bus should be kept off the road till it has been branded? What about the 'TEN' merc's that were running about for months with no branding should they have been kept in the depot all day?
8319 is an allocated spare - not a vehicle allocated to a service. There's a difference.
Deptford trying to keep a spare off the road that really shouldn't have been out is a good thing, and I commend them for that - using all other resources to keep it off road until branded/transferred.