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Posted by RTS_book on Tue Aug 25 20:20:36 2009, in response to Re: Millennium debt deepens, posted by RailBus63 on Tue Aug 25 19:37:58 2009. No. Despite their consolidation under the Nova blanket, the Roswell and Quebec operations were rather separate--in fact, the Canadian firm was reluctant to buy TMC from Dial after purchasing the MCI transit operations. That's a somewhat separate story, but the gist of it is a superiority complex was held by the Canadians.It showed up again when Roswell engineering developed the RTS LF. Folks I know who saw and rode on the bus were quite impressed with how solid it felt. Quebec, though, had the LFS, and the opinion was that one LF design was enough. A few years later, the same group justified shuttering the Roswell operations, using the fact that HF orders were growing scarce, and the group "couldn't remain relevant." I have a feeling this bus could have made more inroads if it simply had actual corporate support. Sadly, after 1992, the entire RTS line seemed to loose just that. I can't point at a single major change that made it into series production that didn't come about via either GM ownership or TMC's management. Glory days, indeed. |
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