With the Busworld exhibition at Kortrijk in Belgium in October fast approaching, MAN staged its preview last week in the Polish capital, Warsaw. In a packed programme, the press also took the opportunity to include a visit to their bus production facility at Starachowice and a ride & drive experience in a fleet of Neoplan […]
ADL’s twice annual press briefing moved to their Scarborough plant for Summer 2017 in recognition of two significant anniversaries there – 110 years of Plaxton coachbuilding and ten years of the Plaxton business joining with ADL. The event also marked ten years at the helm for CEO, Colin Robertson. Colin set the scene with an […]
Recent years have posed some challenges for Yorkshire Tiger, Arriva’s stand-alone operation in West Yorkshire. Fire, flood and management change all took their toll before a new team led by MD, Simon Finnie, took control during 2016. David Cole met up with Simon and his team at the launch of the company’s latest vehicles to […]
In revising Tourismo, Mercedes-Benz had a hard act to follow, because the existing Tourismo range is already the best-selling touring coach in Europe, with a market share of around 20%. Some 2,097 were built in 2016 and a total of over 26,000 have left the factory since the first coach to carry the Tourismo name […]
Full range for the UK! Stuart Jones was in Brussels for the launch and brings readers a preview of the new incarnation of one of the UK’s best-selling coaches I can’t ever remember it happening before, indeed I don’t think it has, but this week’s unveiling of the new Mercedes-Benz Tourismo coach included a right-hand […]
In the heritage Grand Central Hotel above Glasgow’s Central Station, transport professionals across all modes gathered for the first Transport Times summit to be held in Scotland for ten years. Some 150 delegates represented operators, local and national authorities, customer organisations, construction and the support services sector at the event sponsored by First, Optare, Cubic […]
After you leave the A30 and follow the B3277 to Mount Hawke you come over the brow of a hill and a vista of the north Cornwall coast opens up before you. With wild flowers lining the sides of the roads, a bright blue sky with white fluffy clouds, the vivid yellow of the gorse […]
Recent years have brought mixed fortunes for Ayats in the UK but a revival of the brand is now underway with the establishment of Ayats UK Coach Sales Ltd. The driving force behind the new organisation is Dave Nickson, owner of the Elite Group and former manager of the Ayats brand at Anglo-American, the successful […]