LDN: New Olympus bodied trident for London

Here is DOE1 - the first of a batch of 54 Darwen [East Lancs] Olympus bodied trident ordered by Go Ahead for Sutton garage.

seasons greetings to all,


regards

Yoram

May i know what is the different between old Olympus? THX!

here is the first ever Olympus bodied trident, which was finished by east lancs, which was sold to darwen and then to Optare. no differences!

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and, here is an early version of the east lancs body for a trident chassis. Igonring the trade name given to it, you can see how similar they are!

regards

Yoram

原帖由 yblumann 於 2008-12-25 02:02 發表
Here is DOE1 - the first of a batch of 54 Darwen [East Lancs] Olympus bodied trident ordered by Go Ahead for Sutton garage.

seasons greetings to all,


regards

Yoram

Still have New Trident today?
Not all the trident become Enviro 400?

原帖由 yblumann 於 2008-12-25 02:02 發表
Here is DOE1 - the first of a batch of 54 Darwen [East Lancs] Olympus bodied trident ordered by Go Ahead for Sutton garage.

seasons greetings to all,


regards

Yoram

So this batch of Olympus are traded under Darwen? or Optare?

原帖由 1005 於 2008-12-25 09:01 發表


Still have New Trident today?
Not all the trident become Enviro 400?

in fact, there is never a chassis called Enviro 400 yet, all Enviro 400 on road now were sold as a whole, ie. Trident chassis with Enviro 400 body.

The E400 [and the E500] refers to the body and not the whole bus.
You can certainly buy an E400 bodied bus on ADL/trident chasis, or as ADL refer to it: "E400 is available as a fully intergrated vehicle on an ADL chasis", but the E400 body is is available on volvo B9 and Scania chasis too.
ADL= Alexander Dennis Litmited in guliflord Surrey.
So, here in the UK, we say that E400 trident means E400 bodied bus on ADL chasis, and E400 volvo for B9 chasis.

Today in the UK, there are not so many body makers for ADL/trident chasis: apart from the E400, you have Darwen/Optare Olympus body- and that's the choice- 2 body options for the chasis]
for Volvo B9, there are E400, Olympus and Wright's body [similar to the AVBWs]. [3 body options for the chasis]
for scania you have E400, Olympus and the polish built omnicity d/d body. [4 boyd options for the chasis]

regards

Yoram

East lancs bodyworks went out of business, and bought by Darwen Group; and Darwen bought  Optare and renamed the company to Optare! all within about one year! confusing...

East Lancs= East lancashire coachbuilders:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Lancashire_Coachbuilders

Darwen buying optare:
http://www.busandcoach.com/newsStory.aspx?id=1864

regards

Yoram