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Re: 1981 News Report: Grumman-Flxible 870 Cracked A-Frame Problems |
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Posted by New Flyer D40LF 4050 on Wed Jan 5 21:23:05 2011, in response to Re: 1981 News Report: Grumman-Flxible 870 Cracked A-Frame Problems, posted by r17-6599 on Wed Jan 5 20:32:58 2011. Where is your proof of this? Or is this a line of thinking you're going along with to further your conspiracy? NYCTA pulled the Grummans in 1984. They had been ordering the RTS buses for three years prior to that.And the RTS was selling relatively well, even the faulty 01 and 03 models. Besides the massive TA order, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Miami and LA/So Cal were purchasing the RTS in large numbers. The thing that eventually did the RTS in was the increased amount of non-Flxible competitors using the "low bid" rule to sell cheap and inferior buses like the rotten/rusted Neoplans. Houston Metro hemmed and hawed about having to accept a 1985 Flxible bid and made it clear they wanted GM to fill the order, but rules are rules. RTS buses built for years prior outlasted the Flxibles by two years. |
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