page_title: Flyer 700/800/900 series
section_title: D700/E700
hierarchical_section_title: Flyer 700/800/900 series / History / D700/E700
caption_attribution_description: Flyer E800 at Seashore Trolley Museum
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: Western Flyer, a small manufacturer of over-the-road coaches since 1941, diversified into the transit market in the late 1960s because the existing intercity market was too small; from 1946 to 1968, the company delivered just 693 coaches. The company created a prototype designated the D700 and sold 379 buses to several Canadian transit agencies between 1967 and 1973; regular production versions were designated D700A. The D700/D700A had similar design and styling to the popular GM New Look buses. The first D700 was sold to Winnipeg Transit in 1968. The D700 was designed with a "T" drive layout (where the rear-mounted engine is connected to the rear axle in a perpendicular orientation), as GM would not sell their patented "V" drive layout (a more compact arrangement where the engine meets the axle at an acute angle) outside the United States.
  An electric trolleybus version was also sold as the E700; 191 were built in total. The first E700 was sold to Toronto Transit Commission in 1968. At the time, Flyer was the only company still making electric trolleybuses in North America. Two E700s were sold to San Francisco's Muni in 1972 and served as prototypes for a later order of more than 300 E800 trolleybuses.
caption: "Fishbowl" windshield on E800 at Seashore Trolley Museum. D/E700 and 800 windshields are largely identical.
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