First Manchester

[gilesbus1]

RE: First Manchester

(17/04/2019 07:51)Barney Wrote:  When Arriva was forced to sell Gillmoss depot, there was a great deal of vehicle movement before the actually date of transfer. In particular, all of the then almost new Millennium fleet was transferred out and replaced with 30 older Metrobuses that Arriva repainted into the newly-formed GTL livery.

That was because GTL couldn't afford the lease payments on the Volvo Olympians, so 20 odd older buses were swapped and they were brought up from Arriva Southern Counties, and the Volvo's moved to other Arriva Merseyside garages.

Think it would be a slightly different scenario, and would have been discussed at the time of purchase. What I can't get my head around is presumably talks had taken place between the two prior to the announcement in February, and would have been going on when Rusholme closed, so why were the ADL's and Streetlites transferred out to Bolton and Oldham and not simply direct to Queens Road, it simply makes no sense! if that was the case.