It’s in a picture-postcard location, right on the border between Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, but the prompt for my visit to Taf Valley Coaches on that occasion wasn’t the scenery but a newly refurbished office. And now I’m back, this time for a new, purpose-built (indeed, Edwards-built) two-storey office block. That’s the headline, but much more […]
The death of Alan White, founder of Minis to Midis, last year was a great shock as was the closure of this leading minicoach dealer a few months later. The loss of the dealer left Noones, the Irish producers of the popular Turas range of minicoaches, without a UK dealer. In October they rectified this […]
From a minibus point of view Treka well and truly stole the Show at this year’s CV Show held in Birmingham. A new vehicle from Treka is very, very rare. It is known across the industry for producing very practical coachbuilt and van conversion 16-22 seat wheelchair accessible conversions on the 5/5.5 tonnes Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, […]
Small bus manufacturers from across Europe were in Madrid recently answering the invitation to put forward their latest vehicles as candidates for the Minibus of the Year accolade. First they had to participate in the second-ever Minibus Euro Test. Stuart Jones was there. The international Bus & Coach of the Year Jury, which has been […]
It is more than two and a half years since I first drove the exciting new VW Crafter replacement for the popular LT Crafter. So what’s that got to do with MAN TGE? They are essentially the same vehicle save for the badging. The old LT was, of course, a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter body which was […]
Converters, coachbuilders and operators will recognise the New Daily as, on the outside at least, it’s visually a very similar vehicle. The latest changes are an upgrade rather than a complete new model as the body structure including the bonnet, is the same as the previous model launched on the top of Mont Blanc in […]
There is no shortage of gusto with John Clarfelt, one of the team behind Ticketer, the integrated ticketing system for PCVs. Many might know him as the man in the centre of the always busy and colourful Ticketer stands at the annual bus and coach exhibitions at the NEC (which last year had an outer-space […]
Let’s come clean. The elephant in the room is the road test a few weeks back of Scania’s 13.2-metre tri-axle Irizar i6S. They’re very similar super-high coaches in very similar niches – the Scania with 53 seats, the DAF-based Integral with 55, but aside from the driveline, the package is very similar. Both have automated […]