Held for the fourth consecutive year at the Radisson Blu Hotel at East Midlands airport, the annual Coachmarque Conference was staged last week. It has a significant social aspect including a dinner and though Stuart Jones missed this, he was present throughout the following day’s business sessions. According to the organisation’s website, Coachmarque is ‘the […]
The company’s history can be traced back to the formation in 1945 of two individual Fife businesses, James Moffat and Sons of Cardenden and Williamson’s of Gauldry, the two joining forces in 1978. George joined the industry in 1976 as a semi skilled mechanic and later as a driver for the Williamson family. He had […]
Smartcards and contactless payments are widely touted to be the future of PCV payments, having taken off in a big way already. However, cash is almost certainly going to be staying with us for the foreseeable future, a position being reinforced in March 2017 when the Royal Mint is due to introduce the new £1 […]
2017 marks 30 years since services were withdrawn from the UK’s first guided busway in the northern suburbs of Birmingham. The Tracline 65 600m demonstration project, a co-operation between the then West Midlands County Council and WMPTE, had been in operation since the autumn of 1984 as part of state of the art (of that […]
Stakeholders from organisations across Oxford and beyond joined the Oxford Bus Company team for a reception in Oxford University’s Divinity School. Welcoming guests, MD Phil Southall referred to Oxford’s reputation as a world class city and the role his company and its predecessors has played and will continue to play in supporting its mobility. In […]
There is, according to Labour MP for Nottingham South, Lillian Greenwood, only one joke about buses, which is that you wait an age for one and three come along at once. This was one of those occasions when its use was reasonable as the 13 BYD e-bus 12m electric buses delivered to Nottingham Community Transport […]
York’s iconic Minster provided an imposing backdrop to the launch of Transdev’s £2.34m investment in the Malton based Coastliner operation. Sparkling on a grey and damp afternoon were the first two of ten Volvo B5TL Wrightbus Gemini 3 vehicles in the new Coastliner livery, part of the branding package developed by Best Impressions to promote […]
When you first arrive at the offices of GM Coachwork, situated just off the A38 between Ashburton and Kennford, you are not prepared for the sheer scale of the operation. I met with Paul Barber, Minibus Sales Specialist, who has been with the company for 23 years. A friend of CEO David Vooght, he was […]