The Flxible Metro was a transit bus assembled by the Flxible Corporation from 1983 until 1995. From 1978 until early 1983, while Flxible belonged to Grumman, the same design was sold as the Grumman 870 Advanced Design Bus. The 870 had serious defects, among them cracking in its A-shaped frame, which led to fleet withdrawals and lawsuits, and the Metro corrected those problems. Of 14,456 buses built over the combined seventeen years, 4,642 were 870 models and 9,814 were Metros. The design grew out of a federal effort to develop an accessible advanced-design transit bus, with the General Motors RTS the only other model the government would subsidize. Production ended in late 1995 and the company went into bankruptcy in 1996.
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The Flxible Metro is a transit bus that was assembled and manufactured by the Flxible Corporation from 1983 until 1995.
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Production continued until late 1995, when financial problems prompted the company to suspend production and lay off most of its workforce at the Delaware, Ohio, factory.
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The Flxible Metro is a transit bus that was assembled and manufactured by the Flxible Corporation from 1983 until 1995.
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Production continued until late 1995, when financial problems prompted the company to suspend production and lay off most of its workforce at the Delaware, Ohio, factory.
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The Flxible Metro is a transit bus that was assembled and manufactured by the Flxible Corporation from 1983 until 1995.
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The Flxible Metro is a transit bus that was assembled and manufactured by the Flxible Corporation from 1983 until 1995.
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Production continued until late 1995, when financial problems prompted the company to suspend production and lay off most of its workforce at the Delaware, Ohio, factory.
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The Flxible Metro is a transit bus that was assembled and manufactured by the Flxible Corporation from 1983 until 1995.
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