this articulated bus seemed quite cool. However, i felt that it
might be just the prototype having UK bodywork, the production
batch may well reverts back into CDGE or Gemaling bodywork
Please go and read that article again.
It says that
" The Wright Group has won a
significant export order together with Volvo Bus Corporation to
supply the bodywork for 150 new double deck buses to SBS Transit of
Singapore. The multi million pound order – which
involves “kits” produced locally in Ballymena shipped out for local
assembly - will see Wrightbus bodied vehicles on the
streets of Singapore for the very first time."
So it means the design of all the 150 B9TLs are according to the
Wrightbus features. All the body kits, like the skeletons, the side
body panels, the interior cabin panels, the floorings, the lights,
etc are all made in Northern Ireland, and these kits will be
shipped in bulk to Singapore for local assembly, either in Hougang
Depot, Soon Chow or SC Auto.
They had already ordered all the bodykits, so how can it be
reverted to CDGE or Gemilang??? It makes no sense. And there
is no official press that Gemilang is bodying the B9TLs.
Given the past history of SBS/SBST assembling its own buses, all
the Duple Metsec, Volgren, Walter Alexander bodied buses, all are
imported as kits to SBS so that SBS can fully assemble their own
bus bodies locally but products from overseas. And this has been
practised by SBS since the 1970s.
Unless you mean that the bus bodies are assembled locally in
Hougang, Soon Chow and SC Auto, maybe it makes more sense. I
suggest you should buy the Soon Chow Anniversary book to know more
about local bus body building in Singapore. You will learn a lot of
things about the local bus industry as well.
