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 […]
Their arrival was marked this week with a press launch at Wolverhampton’s Dunstall Park horseracing track with two of 37 buses scheduled for the 529 and 126 services present. Both were fully branded for the 529 between Wolverhampton and Walsall with those for the 126 Wolverhampton to Birmingham service scheduled to arrive soon. Apart from […]
In May 1987, the UK bus industry was coming to terms with the dual impacts of deregulation and the privatisation of National Bus Company subsidiaries. Outside of London, registration of new vehicles had dropped to very low levels. Most of them were minibuses as companies freed of many legislative constrictions sought new ways to compete […]
Richmond’s Coaches of Barley in Hertfordshire is a family business in every sense of the word. Not only have three generations of the Richmond family run it since former RAF Wellington pilot, Harold Victor Richmond (known as HVR), acquired the operations, fleet and premises of A Livermore in July 1946, but generations of other families […]