Mellor Coachcraft has had an amazing year. It started by building on the previous year’s work of introducing 100% fully engineered and productionised standards to its Orion range of up to 22 passenger low floor directly wheelchair accessible minibuses, particularly the increasingly popular service bus version. Then they introduced the Maxima, a high capacity minibus […]
For its 41st Annual Conference, CPT Scotland returned to Cameron House on the shores of Loch Lomond, though the recent appointment of First Glasgow MD, Fiona Kerr to a new post as Head of Operations in Scotland for Travis Perkins, meant that Sandra Whitelaw, MD of Whitelaw’s Coaches, stepped up to the Chair. Sandra will […]
When it came time for the Bromsgrove based operator to refurnish some of its fleet, the company found the leather like material ideal for its needs. Looking to breathe some new life into one of the company’s well kept Neoplan Cityliners, Jon and Steve Harris of Harris Executive Travel could not decide what moquette to […]
For one week in September, Germany becomes the world focus of public transport when the primarily rail orientated Innotrans in Berlin opens its doors at the same time as the first days of the IAA in Hannover. Innotrans has always included a public transport element particularly in respect of information systems and has strived to […]
Engines and Mechanical Components Allison Transmission In its two storey booth, Allison Transmission provided information on its fully automatic transmissions for medium and heavy duty commercial vehicles. One of its newest products is xFE for city and transit buses, which is designed to improve fuel economy by up to 7%. The xFE transmission is designed […]
The big trends were towards electromobility and connectivity though other significant motivators of change on many stands were the impending universal adoption of the 19.5-tonnes GVW across Europe (the usefulness of which is limited by the retention of the 11.5-tonnes rear axle limit) and the impending requirement for ECE66R02 rollover certification which potentially puts even […]
Greener Journeys, the campaign organisation pressing for more sustainable transport journeys, published research entitled ‘The Impact of Congestion on Bus Passengers’ in early June this year and has now produced an extended version with an enhanced annex now incorporating case studies from Gloucestershire, Dublin, Glasgow, Oxford and the West Midlands. It was launched last Wednesday […]
The official launch of a fleet of 51 new ADL bodied BYD e-Bus fully electric buses for use on TfL services 507 and 521 took place at Go-Ahead London’s Waterloo depot last Friday, though the first of them had already been on the road for a little over a week by this time. It marked […]