OPTARE WRES IN

摘要

Optare's return to the double-deck market has been painfully slow, but it looks like its faith in its integral MetroDecker as an all-electric vehicle may finally be rewarded with an order that could put a double figure quantity into service in York. To remind ourselves of the story, Optare built nearly 300 Spectra bodies on DAF — later VDL — DB250 chassis between 1991 and 2004, then one of its changes of ownership saw it apply the Optare name to the products of East Lanes from 2008 until the Blackburn factory closed in 2011.