New flyer
| New Flyer Industries Inc.
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| ISIN | CA64438T4019 |
| founding | 1930 |
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Winnipeg , Canada
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| management | Paul Soubry ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 5,000 |
| sales | 1.54 billion US dollars |
| Branch | Omnibuses |
| Website | www.newflyer.com |
| As of December 27, 2015 | |
New Flyer Industries Inc. is a Canadian manufacturer of city buses . The company has facilities at its headquarters in Winnipeg and in the US cities of St. Cloud and Crookston, both Minnesota . With over 2,200 employees and 2,164 buses delivered in 2008, New Flyer is the largest bus manufacturer in North America (41 percent market share). The buses are also exported to the United States , Latin America, and South America .
history
The company was founded by John Coval in 1930. At that time the company operated under the name Western Auto and Truck Body Works Ltd. With the increase in the production of its own buses, the company was renamed Western Flyer Coach in 1948. In the sixties the company focused on urban buses. When the company ran into financial difficulties in 1971, it was sold to the Manitoba Development Corporation . The company introduced the name Flyer Industries Limited . On July 15, 1986, the Dutchman Jan den Oudsten , whose family ran the Dutch bus manufacturer Den Oudsten Bussen , bought Flyer Industries from the Manitoba Development Corporation . As a result of the acquisition, the name was changed to New Flyer Industries Limited. In 1988, New Flyer was the first manufacturer in North America to introduce low-floor buses . The first D40LF bus was delivered to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1991. In 1995 the first articulated bus based on the same principle was delivered to Strathcona County Transit in Alberta . With 6,100 low-floor buses delivered, New Flyer was the largest manufacturer on the North American continent. In 2003 the company received a major order from Seattle's King County Metro . The order comprised 213 hybrid buses. Between 2005 and the end of 2009, New Flyer delivered 262 low-floor trolley buses to the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (now: Translink) . The order included the E40LFR and E60LFR models. The first bus was delivered in July 2005 and the rest by autumn 2009. In 2006, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (Septa) ordered 38 E40LFR buses.
In 2013 the manufacturer North American Bus Industries (NABI) from Anniston (Alabama) and at the end of 2015 the company Motor Coach Industries from Des Plaines were taken over.
In May 2019, New Flyer took over the British bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis .
Models
The drive variants currently offered are diesel , natural gas , electric ( trolleybuses , battery-electric vehicles or fuel cell buses) and diesel-electric hybrids . New Flyer presented buses with natural gas drive as early as 1994 and is considered a pioneer in the implementation of alternative drives . The world's first mass-produced fuel cell hybrid buses were delivered to British Columbia by the end of 2009 , where they were used during the 2010 Winter Olympics .
Versions
Only low-floor vehicles have been produced since 2005; they are each available in a solo and an articulated version. The buses are built in different models or are available with different versions and equipment.
| Fuel type | length | design type | Model |
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| C = compressed natural gas (CNG) D = diesel DE = diesel-electric (hybrid) E = electric trolleybus XE = battery-electric GE = gasoline-electric (hybrid) H = hydrogen fuel cell (only 40LFR) HE = hydrogen L = liquefied natural gas (LNG) |
30 = 30 feet (9.1 m) 35 = 35 feet (11 m) 40 = 40 feet (12 m) 41 = 41 feet (12.5 m) 60 = 60 feet (18 m) articulated bus |
Low-floor buses | R = restyled front |
Current models
| Models | Introduced | length | photo | Remarks |
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| Xcelsior | 2008 | 11 m 12 m 18 m |
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10% weight reduction compared to previous models. Available in the C, D, E, DE and XE versions. |
| 60LFR | 2005 | 18 m |  |
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| 40LFR | 2005 | 12 m |  |
Is available in all versions, and a visually and technically modernized successor to the 40LF. Recognizable by the R in the type designation. |
| 35LFR | 2005 | 11 m | Currently only available in C, D, GE versions | |
| 30LFR | 2005 | 9 m | Only available in D version. Currently only for demo and test purposes. |
Discontinued models (selection)
| model | introduction | End of production | photo | length | Remarks |
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| LFA | 2005 | 2010 |  |
different versions | |
| C30LF D30LF DE30LF |
1996 | 2009 |  |
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| C35LF D35LF DE35LF |
1996 | 2009 | |||
| C40LF D40LF DE40LF |
1988 | 2013 |  |
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| C40 D40 L40 |
1987 | 1999 |  |
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| D60 E60 Galaxy |
1988 | 2004 |  |
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| E901A / E902 |
1982 | 1983 |  |
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| D901 D901A |
1980 | 1984 |  |
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| E800 E800A |
1974 | 1978 |  |
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| D700 D700A |
1968 | 1973 |  |
Locations
Production plants:
- Winnipeg, Manitoba (buses & coaches)
- St. Cloud, Minnesota (buses)
- Crookston, Minnesota (buses, assembly only)
- Anniston, Alabama (buses)
- Pembina, North Dakota (coaches, final assembly only)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leadership
- ↑ a b c Annual Information Form 2016 ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Presentation of May 11, 2009 ( Memento of the original of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.6 MB)
- ↑ a b Press release from 2003 ( Memento of the original dated September 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 15, 2014
- ↑ New Flyer Acquisition of NABI ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 21th 2013
- ↑ New Flyer Completes Acquisition of Motor Coach Industries and Announces 12.9% Increase to Dividend ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , December 18, 2015
- ↑ NFI takes over ADL. In: omnibus.news. May 28, 2019, accessed May 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Press release of August 3, 2007 (PDF; 21 kB)
- ↑ a b c d e f Murray, Alan: World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia , p. 96. Trolleybooks, Yateley, Hampshire, UK, 2000, ISBN 0-904235-18-1 .
