On Sun, 31 Dec 2017 02:19:39 -0800 (PST), Paul Corfield
wrote:

On Friday, 29 December 2017 22:49:57 UTC, Recliner wrote:

I'm sure you'll be thrilled at this bit of news:

"William Wright, of Ballymena-based Wrightbus - the company behind the new
London Routemaster double-decker - is knighted for services to the economy
and bus industry."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42504660

Not terribly bothered to be honest. Wrightbus have made a lot of very decent vehicles over the years and have developed a decent business. They have had an awful lot of state support too but that's not exactly unusual in NI.

If Wrightbus hadn't made the NB4L someone else would. It was a political construct not a bus industry initiative.

Weren't there a lot of build problems with them? The engines were
running almost all the time as the batteries weren't getting charged,
the air-cooling didn't, etc.