Flyer D700

The Flyer D700 was the first transit bus built by Western Flyer of Winnipeg, Manitoba, a company that had until then made only intercity and suburban coaches. A prototype was delivered in 1967 and a prototype trolleybus, the E700, followed in 1968. The design looked very much like the popular General Motors New Look bus, and the regular production version was designated D700A. Between 1967 and 1973 the company built 379 D700 diesel buses and about 190 E700 trolleybuses, mostly for Canadian transit systems, with Winnipeg Transit buying the first examples. In 1970 the design was licensed to AM General in the United States, which reworked it as the Metropolitan, and Flyer later adopted that redesigned body as the D800. The D700 therefore opens the line that ran through the D800 and D900 until 1987, the year after Flyer became New Flyer.