RE: 96 New Nova BUS Low Floor Buses for Montreal.SAINT-EUSTACHE, Quebec--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 1998--Nova BUS Nova BUS Nova Bus is a bus manufacturing company based in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada. The company is now owned by Prevost Car, which is a division of Volvo Buses. Nova Bus was created by a reorganization of the transit bus division of MCI in 1993, and continued the production of Corporation is pleased to announce that it has received confirmation yesterday that the Montreal Urban Community The Montreal Urban Community (MUC) (Communaute Urbain de Montreal - CUM) was a regional government that covered all municipalities that the PQ later forcibly merged into the Megacity of Montreal. Transit Corporation (MUCTC MUCTC Montreal Urban Community Transit Corporation ) will exercise its option to purchase 96 Low-Floor buses from Nova BUS Corporation. This represents a contract valued at $37M for its Saint-Eustache plant in Quebec, Canada. The award of this contract to Nova BUS will strengthen the company's order book and maintain production rate of the Low-Floor bus assembly line at the Saint-Eustache plant. Delivery of the vehicles is scheduled between the fall of '98 and the summer of '99. "This decision taken by the MUCTC Board is an indication of their confidence in the products and the employees of Nova BUS", said Mr. Dennis Tallon, President and Chief Executive Officer of the corporation. Mr. Tallon also noted the excellent cooperation between MUCTC and Nova BUS which led to the implementation of a continuous quality improvement process in the production of the new buses which will benefit all customers. Nova BUS Corporation is the leading designer and manufacturer of urban transit buses in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The company, owned by Volvo Bus Group of Sweden and Henly's Group of Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. , operates four plants located in Saint-Eustache and Saint-Francois-du-Lac in Quebec, Schenectady in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of state and Roswell in New Mexico, as well as a parts distribution center in Montreal.
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