KX57FMJ - Hales Street, Coventry, May 2015.
West Midlands Special Needs Transport (or wmsnt as carried on the front of the bus), had a penchant for the Plaxton Primo building up a fleet of them from a variety of sources, KX57FMJ arriving from Mid Wales Motors. Most operated in this plain white livery, remaining so when the company rebranded itself as iGO. The Plaxton Primo was an integral model developed as the Enterprise Plasma in Hungary, but finished, and sold for the UK bus market by Plaxton during the companies brief independence after the collapse of Transbus. The Primo was intended as a competitor to the Optare Solo in the small midibus market, but its driveline, with tranverse Cummins engine (leading to the short rear overhang), was just one of the shortcomings that led operators to dispose of them with indignant haste.
KX57FMJ - Hales Street, Coventry, May 2015.
West Midlands Special Needs Transport (or wmsnt as carried on the front of the bus), had a penchant for the Plaxton Primo building up a fleet of them from a variety of sources, KX57FMJ arriving from Mid Wales Motors. Most operated in this plain white livery, remaining so when the company rebranded itself as iGO. The Plaxton Primo was an integral model developed as the Enterprise Plasma in Hungary, but finished, and sold for the UK bus market by Plaxton during the companies brief independence after the collapse of Transbus. The Primo was intended as a competitor to the Optare Solo in the small midibus market, but its driveline, with tranverse Cummins engine (leading to the short rear overhang), was just one of the shortcomings that led operators to dispose of them with indignant haste.