Bright lights around top of Solo

[northwichcat]

D&G Bus were using an older Solo on the 300 route yesterday which had been modified to have a row of bright (I think LED) white lights above the destination display and along the sides of the bus with a red row of lights along the top of the back of the back. Why would D&G have done this? The bus has LED destination displays so I don't think it relates to DDA, in fact the lights above the destination display actually make it harder to read the display even if you can see a vehicle is approaching sooner.

 

[Danfilm007]

D&G Bus were using an older Solo on the 300 route yesterday which had been modified to have a row of bright (I think LED) white lights above the destination display and along the sides of the bus with a red row of lights along the top of the back of the back. Why would D&G have done this? The bus has LED destination displays so I don't think it relates to DDA, in fact the lights above the destination display actually make it harder to read the display even if you can see a vehicle is approaching sooner.

Some of those D&G Solos also have American style horns on the top I've noticed.

 

[crehld]

Sounds like one of the buses they regularly use on the 85. I'll ask the driver next time I'm on one to see if it has any purpose or if its purely aesthetic.

 

[northwichcat]

I've just found out they are ex-Goodwins buses like this one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/34487875@N07/22086499345 Not as old as I thought. I got used to thinking the 58 reg Solos D&G have had LED headlights and anything that didn't was older.

 

[crehld]

I've just found out they are ex-Goodwins buses like this one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/34487875@N07/22086499345 Not as old as I thought. I got used to thinking the 58 reg Solos D&G have had LED headlights and anything that didn't was older.

Yep, that's the one on the 85 a lot of the time (in red now of course).

 

[90019]

They're just extra marker lights, which are a purely aesthetic thing.

 

[northwichcat]

There was an Enviro 200 on the 300 route on Saturday which also had the lights and horns. It looks like that is an ex-Goodwins bus now with D&G as well: https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5668/21599835979_19a824a16d_b.jpg

 

[6Gman]

It's a Go-Goodwins thing, not a D&G thing.

 

[northwichcat]

Some of those D&G Solos also have American style horns on the top I've noticed.

I heard them being used on an ex-Goodwins Enviro last night as someone had doubled parked and blocked the bus route. I think the person who had double parked was the only person in the town who didn't hear the driver sounding the horns!