Now you said it, I remembered taking an old generation DAF on
route 852 from Ang Mo Kio to Yishun not long after the Woodlands
routes were rationalised due to the Woodlands MRT Extension. Still
remember that there were actually two route 852 buses arriving
together at my stop, the one behind being the DAF (I can't remember
the model of the bus at the front, but I can confrim that it was a
then-newer TIBS bus). I decided to take the DAF as up until then, I
never took an old generation DAF bus before. It was my first time
on that bus, and also the only time when they were with TIBS before
being transferred to CSS. The EDS, I remember clearly, displayed
only the numbers "852", with the rest displaying mostly blank
space, a few dots, and some random characters
.
Also recalled seeing a old generation DAF along Yishun Avenue 2
sometime before that trip (but after the rationalisation), but I
can't remember what route it was on.