First Manchester

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RE: First Manchester

(19/02/2019 17:05)darylyates17 Wrote:  I wonder if First will swap any of the newer vehicles with older ones from other depots before Queens Road officially gets taken over by Go-Ahead

I can't see it, what people forget is that if you put in a load of old bangers, the price to be paid goes down, and the net value is less. First need to sell at a higher rate to make returns to pay off the debt.

Plus also the older vehicles generally are at Queens Road anyway. There might I guess be an odd move like there was at Wigan but apart from that I think what is based there now is what will go to Go Ahead.

The question then is what happens after Go Ahead take over as the age profile is wrong and unbalanced into a few large batches. Some Volvo B9TL's might well be suitable to go to East Yorkshire or Go North Eeast to replace older stock there, while new vehicles come in, what the buying policy of the new company might be remains to be seen, so I don't wish to make any further comments on that, London stock might be an option except most stock coming out of London has the same age profile or is older than the B9TL's that are here anyway.