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80 years of bus manufacturing in Blackburn to end

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pemma

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Optare are to stop bus building in Blackburn, ending 80 years of bus building in the town as they move it to Sherburn-in-Elmet, Yorkshire
http://www.insidermedia.com/insider/yorkshire/64925-/

Silent Night are moving jobs in the opposite direction as they move their Batley operations to Lancashire. So will we have bed makers building buses and bus builders making beds? :shock:
 
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Also the end of a long history of bus making in Lancashire, with Leyland, Northern Counties and now East Lancs all gone. Wonder who will get the last Blackburn build bus? Nottingham City Transport have already had the last Omnideckers, but presumably they are still making Olympuses.
 

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Nope, the Olympus had been out of production since around November.

Wonder what they are still building then, as the Omnidecker also went out of production around that time, with NCT taking the last ones (introduced early December onto the 89).
 

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AFAIK, Optare currently have no double deck offering until they finish development of the new integral Olympus (if its still called that).
 

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AFAIK, Optare currently have no double deck offering until they finish development of the new integral Olympus (if its still called that).

Still called that according to the sales booklet I had off them a few days ago.

They even have a little minibus on the Fiat chassis
 
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