Derby in bus-swop update
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DERBY City Transport has reviewed its fleet requirements and is exchanging some double-deckers for secondhand luxury coaches.
It is selling three 1970 Daimler Fleetlines with twodoor double-deck bodies to Warrington Borough which, in turn, is selling two Leyland Leopard coaches to Derby.
The Leopards will modernise the Derby private hire fleet, from which two I2-yearold AECs and five 1972 Daimler Fleetline semicoaches are being withdrawn.
Derby engineering officer G. H. Truran told CM that the Fleetlines were unsuitable for ordinary bus work in the city due to their low seating capacity. "They can't cope with overloading," he said.
He added that consideration had been given to rebodying them as double-deckers, but this was rejected because the council would not have been able to claim bus grant for the new bodies.
There also had been "some reluctance" on the part of coachbuilders to construct such a small number of 33ft double-deck bodies.