On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:45:47 +0100, "tim..."
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"Recliner" wrote in message
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Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 11:43:35 on
Wed, 25 Sep 2019, Recliner remarked:
Figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT)
show
that in the second quarter of this year new bus and coach
registrations are
down 30% compared to the same period last year.

That marks the tenth quarter in a row that new registrations have
declined."

We are on the verge of a recession, the future looks uncertain, and
your
fleet is probably fully compliant with latest regs. Why as an operator
would you start buying new buses?

Of the bigger bus operators, only Go-Ahead are doing well, with both
First and Stagecoach in trouble.

I suppose I'm biased by being in London, where there always seem to be
new buses

The registrations are 'only' down 30%, not 100%.

It seems that Wrightbus had failed to take advantage of the switch to
battery buses,

I'm not sure that "taking advantage of" is the right phase here

"investing tens of million in development" is what you really mean

But did they have that 10s of millions.

It seems Jeff Wright preferred to fund his church rather than his bus
business.