Quoting 9839P:
"Dear forum users,
I would like to emphasize the various variants of the various Volvo
B10M:
SBS 1696 L - SBS 1895
D
Volvo B10M Mk 2
SBS 0582 M - SBS 0881
A
Volvo B10M Mk 3
SBS 0882 Y - SBS 0996
C
Volvo B10M Mk 4 W/ DM bodywork
SBS 1896 B - SBS 1999 M, SBS 2593 T -
SBS 2688 D
Volvo B10M Mk 4 W/ Walter Alexander Strider Bodywork
***SBS 2689 B - SBS 2838
M
Volvo B10M Mk 4 W/ DM 3500 bodywork
*** Please be noted that for the model within the range of rego,
they are called as Mk
4, and NOT Mk
5. This is because:
1. Such naming convention for that particular model may result in
misleading. Hence, it would be thought as a successor of a Mk 4,
which is not the case.
2. A B10M Mk 5 has NEVER existed in the Volvo B10M Variants. Hence,
calling a Mk 4 as a Mk 5 would be inappropriate.
Note:
"...I would like to share my deep discomfort on the potential for
job losses with the errant usage of the term "Mark 5/Mk 5/Mk V"
with a B10M chassis. Attached below is part of an email I received
from a Volvo product representative who to me wield some power to
investigate some employees, in the light that a leak occurred. To
sum up the non-existent parts of the attached email (the ### denote
parts where the privacy of the individual has been requested), it
makes mention that the Mk V B10M was a proposal, where the designs
and blueprints had been drafted, but no such plans to build a
protoype came to fruition, after the swing towards low entry and
low floor buses. I assume that the usage of the term Mk V has the
potential that a pirated or unfortunate incident has been forseen
accidentally, and a wild goose chase for how such a design got
built. It would eventually lead to either a scapegoat, persons
fired uneccessarily, and ultimately, a waste of manpower, money and
resources for nothing. On this, I urge that the possibility of the
usage of the term Mk V be curtailed, or replaced with "DM 3500
bodied Mk IV", or something similar on all groups, and this can
reduce confusion and misleading information."
---- Attachment ----
Dear sir/madam,
"It has come to my attention that the chassis of the fifth B10M
series has appeared in Singapore. If this is the case, my main
concern is to address a board from Volvo HQ in ###### that the
possibility of a communications failure in the corporation has led
to a prototype being constructed. If this is not the case, then the
possibility of a leakage in internal information has arisen, and an
internal inquiry chaired by myself will be held to investigate
leaked information, and the persons sacked. "
for your information.