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Optare MetroRider

Optare MetroRider
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Warrington Borough Transport MetroRider in Blackpool in June 2013
Overview
ManufacturerOptare
Production1989 - 2000
AssemblyCross Gates
Body and chassis
Doors1
Floor typeStep entrance
Powertrain
EngineCummins
Chronology
PredecessorMCW Metrorider
SuccessorOptare Solo

The Optare MetroRider was a midibus manufactured by Optare between 1989 and 2000.

History

Optare based the original design on the MCW Metrorider after it bought the rights from Metro Cammell Weymann after the latter decided to cease production.[1] It was launched in November 1989, with 1,159 produced before it was succeeded by the Optare Solo in 2000.[2][3]

The MetroRider was an integral bus, with the chassis and body constructed as a single structure. It was sold abroad in kit form, in countries such as Malaysia.[4] Four electric and two compressed natural gas powered versions were produced.[3][5]

References

  1. ^ Optare takes Metrorider Commercial Motor 3 August 1989
  2. ^ Companion to Road Passenger Transport History. Walsall: Roads & Road Transport History Association. 2013. p. 360. ISBN 9780955287633.
  3. ^ a b Jenkison, Keith (2020). The History of Optare. Stroud: Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1445696942.
  4. ^ "Revived Optare sells Malaysia 1,000 buses". The Independent. 23 October 1994. Retrieved 24 October 2010.
  5. ^ "The Islay Wave Bus - the world's first!". Greenpeace. Retrieved 24 October 2010.

External links

Media related to Optare MetroRider at Wikimedia Commons


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