Dyson Group news January - June 2013

[Mercedes]

Fire away and don't forget that all Reservoir sightings can now go here.

[tonyw]

Seen at 4:55 pm Thursday Jan 3 at Cnr Janefield Drive/Plenty Road Bundoora, a Dysons livery bus (didn't get the number, sorry) operating route 570. This route is normally operated by East West Bus Company.

[Matty G]

Yes Tony, this is an East West route... though if #478 is out of service, a Dysons livered bus is used.
Dysons only have the 1 East West branded bus.

[DENAIR]

technically not correct with the take over of reservoir bus co , dysons now control all the East WEst buses
cheers pete

[tonyw]

I think what Matty must be saying is that #478 generally runs the 570 and if not available a Dyson's liveried bus runs the service. 570 is run out of Dyson's Bundoora depot. There is only eight buses in East West livery and the other seven would be at Reservoir and used on route 561. All other East West buses are in Smart bus livery, as far as I know.

[E.L.Wood]

2 new Scania/Coach Concepts school buses for Dysons spotted heading south through Narrandera last year(30/12!)

[Matty G]

Hello,

Reservoir Bus Company have taken delivery of 3 new arrivals today!
#785= 9269AO
#786= 9270AO
#787= 9271AO

*Make / model still to be obtained, and of course, all 3 are in the Dysons livery.
These buses are NOT in route service as yet.

Also noted this evening, was Dysons #9 (the historic bus), on tour at the Reservoir yard.

[RailwayBus]

Unsure if this has been reported, apologies if it has, but Reservoir (10) is in Dysons livery, sighted at Reservoir station yesterday.

[E.L.Wood]

Hello,

Reservoir Bus Company have taken delivery of 3 new arrivals today!
#785= 9269AO
#786= 9270AO
#787= 9271AO

*Make / model still to be obtained, and of course, all 3 are in the Dysons livery.
These buses are NOT in route service as yet.

Also noted this evening, was Dysons #9 (the historic bus), on tour at the Reservoir yard.

These were ordered before the takeover and should be Volvo B7RLEs.

[gen man]

Hello,

Reservoir Bus Company have taken delivery of 3 new arrivals today!
#785= 9269AO
#786= 9270AO
#787= 9271AO

*Make / model still to be obtained, and of course, all 3 are in the Dysons livery.
These buses are NOT in route service as yet.

Also noted this evening, was Dysons #9 (the historic bus), on tour at the Reservoir yard.

Thanks for the update, and by the way, they are all Volvo B7RLE's that were originally built as stock units by Volgren for CMV Volvo, then later sold to Reservoir, but never delivered before the Dyson's takeover, from my information, unless someone else knows any different. Reading between the lines, I predict the Reservoir fleet at least will be re-numbered to Dyson's (736) to (784) which fits perfectly with the 49 vehicles in the fleet as of the takeover, then presumably the Midland & East West fleets will follow from (788) onwards. I presume nothing has happened yet???

[Matty G]

No renumbering of the Reservoir fleet has occurred as yet... however, 2 minds think alike in regards to the numbering system

Cheers.

[Jayzhang]

Reservoir 51 on route 552 (Dysons Livery)

[CB80]

Hopefully Dysons will do something about the destos soon.

[josh01]

East west 8001 is missing the bus stopping sign inside the bus
All you can see are the lights

[CB80]

I'm not sure if it's a good idea to post such observations in these threads, as far as I am concerned that is just a routine fault and they will fix it as soon as possible.

[mrmoopt]

Next week: 3174AO, 3170AO and 3170AO will exit the track fleet for good once all equipment is removed.

[Craig]

Next week: 3174AO, 3170AO and 3170AO will exit the track fleet for good once all equipment is removed.

To save others having to check the fleet lists, these are Reservoir #27 (Volvo B6) & Reservoir #25 (Volvo B10M MK4) - not sure what the third Volvo high floor is, as the wrong rego has been provided.

These hadn't been used on route service for some years now but were still used on local school runs that accepted myki.

Kind Regards


Craig

[venturatiger]

At a guess i would say it will be (19) the other Volvo B6

Venturatiger

[mrmoopt]

Sorry it's a typo - 3175AO

Yes, they will be exiting the fleet completely.

[James3659]

the new 787 dysons on 577 route seen at high st near epping pirmary

[James3659]

787 and 785
Admin: Unsatisfactory photo removed.

[James3659]

787
Admin: Unsatisfactory sideways photo removed

[James3659]

got bad shot 136 dysons the best dysons bus
Admin: Unsatisfactory sideways photo removed.

[haydenthegunzel]

Can't say i'm a fan of the new Dysons fleet. I rode 732 on route 513 yesterday, and the seats were very hard and uncomfortable. Felt like i was sitting on plastic with thin material covering it.

[CB80]

Their spec is very nice, nice colour scheme etc but yes the seats are unacceptably hard.