Designing the Alero Painted glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) is the standard for bumpers and skirt panels on buses—big and small—in the competitive and deregulated British bus market. Yet, when the Optare Group began designing the Alero, its first small bus for the community transport sector, the company knew that standing by convention was not an option. Instead Optare turned to a proprietary thermoplastic sheet that enabled it to achieve design

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