Metrorider user group payout
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• Some members of the Metro Cairimell Weymann user group, which was formed to press for a satisfactory followup service from now-defunct MCW, have received some cash from MCW.
Blackburn Borough Transport has been given some money by MCW, and is waiting for the result of writs issued against the MCW group (CM 13-19 July 1989).
This follows a chassis modification package worth some 21,750 per vehicle which MCW has agreed to give owners of long-wheelbase Metroriders, said to suffer from chassis cracking and other problems.
The user group, whose 34 members own 92% of the Metroriders built by MCW, has negotiated a "very encouraging discount" on spare parts for its members with Optare, who bought the Metrorider from MCW last August.
The group has praised Optare for overcoming many of the model's problems since Optare took over production, and for assisting owners of MCW-built vehicles.
"We're trying to look after those vehicles already in the field," says Optare managing director Russell Richardson. "We've pushed MCW as hard as we can to give assistance,"