Stuart Jones has been to a pre-event press conference in Munich that outlined where MAN sees itself at present, discussed future strategy, announced its plans for electromobility, gave the low down on some of the new products and revealed tantalisingly little about others. New strategy MAN Truck & Bus CEO, Joachim Drees, is a man […]
At the beginning of 2016, Doncaster based Noone dealership, Minis to Midis, operated on a staff of five; mostly family members. They have doubled this number and by 1 September, a new General Manager will be in place. Kirsty Flatt caught up with Company Director, Alan White to meet some of the new team members. […]
In the first of what are promised to be regular press briefings, Alexander Dennis Ltd (ADL) invited the press to its Scottish facilities at Larbert and Falkirk last week for an update on what has been happening within the company since their last press conference at the NEC in November 2015. Stuart Jones went along […]
Over the past weeks, Volvo has held two round table discussion events on the subject of sustainable transport. The first was staged in the committee room of Manchester’s imposing Central Library on 10 May and the second at the RICS Centre in London on 10 June. At both a small group of key players from […]
First Bus’s efforts to ensure that the vehicles it purchases deliver the best efficiency it can buy have seen the company carry out regular detailed tests on a full range of bus products at Millbrook over a number of years. Successive tests have been honed to relate them as closely as possible to the conditions […]
The first company to find a solution to the need for a truly value for money coachbuilt 33 seater minicoach since the disappearance of the Mercedes-Benz Vario chassis, is Connaught PSV with their partner Ferqui of Spain. They have become the latest company to exploit the potential of the recently introduced Iveco New Daily chassis […]
The very first registered service to be operated using EVM Cabrio open topped minicoaches was launched in Edinburgh on June 1 by established Scottish tour operator Rabbie’s Trail Burners. Called the Edinburgh City Tour, the new service also represents Rabbie’s first regular service, hitherto all their services have been private tours. I met up with […]
Kenny Walsh says it himself, he’s eccentric. His approach and his sense of humour are different to most other people’s. For him, it’s all about setting up challenges, some of them bizarre, and overcoming them through his ingenuity, determination and the skills he has doggedly acquired over years of varied experience. Don’t be taken aback […]