Wrightbus

[gilesbus1]

RE: Wrightbus
JCB is strictly separate from Wrightbus, they are held as separate business interests and there is no business link.

Still think that Streetlite sales are part of the issue, very few have been sold over the last few months, the only buyer I can name is Rotala Group, and when was a wheel forward version last built?. The Streetdeck does much better and does have orders pending in considerable numbers, that should be enough to keep it through for now, however new products need to become available quickly. ADL's advantage is that the market for saloons has moved to lightweight vehicles and they have always had the dominate position with those, where Wright's dominate position was at one time with heavyweights on Volvo and Scania chassis, and for them lightweight chassis are a catch up game, as is chassis building.

New products need to be developed sooner rather than later, and in particularly a new model to replace the Streetlite or at least update it, also urgent is an electric model, especially on deckers as that is were the market will move in the future and is already moving to, ADL is already cornering this part of the market with both BYD and BAE, Wrightbus has only ever produced ten single deck vehicles for Lothian Buses, even Optare is further ahead, and Volvo seams likely to partner MCV for its electric buses, so they need to start moving quickly, probably with another company in the electric market to try to catch up, maybe they are so late that they can slip one or two steps and make an overall more reliable model, maybe a firm like GEC offers the partnership option? Who knows.

Of course I wish them the best, but it will be no easy feet to accomplish what is needed.