Iveco Bus UK has begun to import its own minicoach versions of the New Daily. Called the Tourys they are entirely built within the Iveco Daily plant in Italy. In the past, Iveco had the Tourys versions of the previous Daily built by an independent bodybuilding company, but the switch to adapting the Daily in-house […]
So much is happening within the Irizar Group these days that regular visits to Spain are required in order to keep up with them. No longer is it just a case of taking in the main factory at Ormaiztegi, there is the integral mechanisation facility too, and this time journalists were the first to be […]
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 […]