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Setting standard

8th September 1978
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WITH OVER £500,000 , government money so far vested in the developmei stages for a new Germ standard city bus — VOV IV II — two large operators hal now committed themselves backing a pre-productic batch of 20 vehicles.

Hamburg and Dilsseldo are each contributing DM1.5 towards the DM8.6m total co of buying the vehicles fro German bus builders. Orde are about to be placed wi. Daimler-Benz and MAN at work is also in progress on ti development of a standard i terurban vehicle based on ti same technology but pr, viding underfloor lugga4 space.

Much of the credit for tl early design work under tl State-sponsored programn must go to the Falkenri( subsidiary of the Hambui transport undertakin Founded towards the end the last century as a rollir stock builder for German at foreign tramways, Falkenril has made some notable co tributions to European p! practice, including the dev lopment of the "pusher" art now being produced Daimler-Benz.

The most recent Falkenri( contract for a foreign operat involved the development of modular "bus family" for CI This includes a city bus, interurban bus and a doubl decker. The prototype of tl interurban bus has now be delivered to Dublin, whe; production vehicles will eve tually be built on Germai supplied jigs.