Additional strength applied to the body's framework for implementing the Floline concept allowed the bus to be specified with bonded gasket windows.
[4][5] These buses eventually became part of the FirstBus fleet, who were popular customers of the Wright Axcess-Ultralow, especially for its Scottish operations.
[citation needed] Twenty Axcess-Ultralows were delivered to MTL Trust Holdings for its Merseybus operations in 1996,[11] while ten Axcess-Ultralows were also delivered to Kentish Bus in late 1994, part of a wider investment by Kent County Council into improving bus stops and shelters as well as providing route information for service 480 between Dartford and Gravesend.
The purchases of both batches of these buses were funded from low-floor grants provided by the Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Authority.
[citation needed] All but 34 of the 276 Axcess-Flolines produced were delivered to FirstBus operators, with some early examples built concurrently alongside the group's orders for the Axcess-Ultralow.