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Den Oudsten purchased Flyer Industries in 1986, and the newly renamed New Flyer introduced the High Floor series with the D40HF in 1987. A B85 was sent to the United States for testing in 1988, and New Flyer subsequently developed and launched the Low Floor series with the D40LF, which began production in 1991 at the Grand Forks assembly plant.
For example, a New Flyer D40-88 is a 40-foot (nominal) rigid high-floor bus with conventional diesel power, built in 1988. The -## suffix was used between 1987 and 1990. After this time, no suffix was added to the model number, while buses from the Low Floor series, which were introduced in 1991, did have LF for a suffix.
The first order of 51 diesel low-floor diesel buses, of the D40LF model, were manufactured by New Flyer in 1999 and retired in 2016. [74] 220 Orion VIIs, manufactured by Orion Bus Industries, were added to the roster in 2003 and 2004, with another 250 acquired in 2005.
The New Flyer Invero (D40i) is a line of low-floor transit buses that was manufactured by New Flyer Industries between 1999 and 2007. Produced as a 40-foot (nominal) rigid bus, the Invero was typically sold with a conventional diesel combustion engine, although a few diesel-electric hybrids were built, integrated by Stewart & Stevenson .
1941 Western Flyer. New Flyer was founded by John Coval in 1930 as the Western Auto and Truck Body Works Ltd in Manitoba. The company began producing buses in 1937, selling their first full buses to Grey Goose Bus Lines in 1937, [1] before releasing their Western Flyer bus model in 1941, prompting the company to change its name to Western Flyer Coach in 1948.
New Flyer Industries D40LF 951–959, 961–968 (17) 1996 New Flyer Industries: D40LF 971 (1) 1998 NovaBus LFS 981 (1) 1999 New Flyer Industries D40LF 990–998 (9) 2005 General Motors GMC C5500 Community Shuttle S200–S201, S261 (3) 2007 New Flyer Industries D60LFR 712–714 (3) 2008 Nova Bus LFS 801–803 (3)
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The New Flyer LF was derived from the Den Oudsten B85/B86 . Other competitors followed suit, with the Orion VI (1995), Nova Bus LF Series (1996, also derived from the Den Oudsten B85), Gillig Low Floor (1997, derived from a shuttle bus design for the Hertz rental car agency), and Neoplan AN440L (1990/94/99).