Teesside order switched
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• The vehicle replacement programme of Teesside Municipal Transport is to be modified following a decision of the transport committee. The committee has decided to adopt a specially designed chassis intended to provide a low step height which is a standard version of the Daimler Fleetline.
An order for 10 Daimler Fleetline double-deck chassis, due for delivery this year, has been increased to 19, while an order for 15 Leyland Atlanteans has been cancelled. Daimler Transport Vehicles Ltd. has been asked to quote for 19 chassis for delivery in 1971 and a further 19 for 1972.
This policy, writes Derek Moses, has been adopted because Leyland claim that it is uneconomic to modify the Atlantean chassis to meet the low-step requirements. A spokesman for Leyland has pointed out that 25 Fleetlines currently being delivered to Cardiff City Transport, together with 26 Leyland-engined Fleetlines on order for Southend-on-Sea Corporation Transport, required the modification which permits the lower exit step; consequently Leyland had not submitted tenders for these vehicles.