page_title: Flyer 700/800/900 series
section_title: D900/E901A/E902
hierarchical_section_title: Flyer 700/800/900 series / History / D900/E901A/E902
caption_attribution_description: Vancouver trolleybus 2938, a Flyer E902 built in 1983, southbound on the Granville Mall at Dunsmuir Street, on route 20-Granville. That route was renumbered 8 in September 1997 and renumbered 10 in September 2003. In the background, another E902 trolleybus is in service on route 4-Fourth to Blanca Street.
context_page_description: The Flyer 700/800/900 series was a group of bus model series built by Western Flyer and its successors Flyer Industries and New Flyer, of Canada, between 1967 and 1987. They were three generations within a model grouping and, except for brief overlap during transition from one generation to the next, were not in production concurrently. All individual model designations included a prefix of either D, for diesel propulsion, or E, for electrically powered trolleybuses. The introductory model was the D700, originally released in 1967 for the Canadian transit market, and the last series group to be produced, D900, was discontinued in 1987. Flyer had become New Flyer only the year before, in 1986.
  The D700 was the first transit bus released by Western Flyer, which had only manufactured suburban over-the-road coaches until then. It closely resembled the contemporaneous and popular GM New Look bus, including the multi-pane "fishbowl"-style windshield. The D700 was subsequently licensed to AM General in 1970 for sales to American transit operators; AM General modified the exterior design and sold it as the AM General Metropolitan starting in 1974.
context_section_description: The D900 was a facelifted version of the D800, with the complex "fishbowl" windshield replaced by two flat panes; the driver's side windshield was inclined to reduce glare and reflections. Sales of the D900 began in 1978, overlapping the tail end of D800 production, and continued to 1987, when the last D901 was built. The D901 modified the driver's windshield, making it curved around the side of the bus. The D901A had a slightly shortened wheelbase with a wider front door to allow simultaneous boarding and disembarking. A D902 was produced for San Francisco Muni, based on the D901A design with a modification to allow a choice of engines. A total of 1,796 D90x buses were built.
  Like prior generations, it was also sold as a trolleybus, designated E901A for the modified driver's windshield and wider front door corresponding to the D901A, later redesignated E902 with no exterior changes. 246 were built, all for BC Transit.
caption: E902 in Vancouver (1985)
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