Optare's John Seale retires after 53 years in bus industry

摘要

Optare Senior Engineer - sales and marketing, technical author and museum founder John Seale has retired after 53 years in the industry. He started his career as an apprentice draughtsman with Metro-Cammell Weymann in 1965, where he later became a member of the design team for the Metrobus double-decker and later the Metrocab taxi design team. He moved to Doncaster in 1988 to pursue his ambition to design his own bus and coach bodywork at van conversion specialist Europa Coaches. After that company's demise, he became engineering design manager at Autobus Classique, later acquired by Optare, responsible for a range of mini and midibus designs.