Tourism is a major business for Edinburgh with around 4m visitors every year pumping over £3.2bn into the city’s economy. That the bus and coach industry is a significant contributor to this was made clear when Lothian Buses MD, Richard Hall, welcomed guests to the recent launch of Edinburgh Bus Tours new £6.5m vehicle fleet […]
The International Bus & Coach of the Year awards, presented in turn at the IAA exhibition in Hanover and the Busworld Europe show in Kortrijk, Belgium, are the premier trophies in the industry, sought after by manufacturers from across Europe. To identify which vehicle should be presented with the title, a test is staged and […]
Electrification of urban bus services has been an objective of Wrightbus for nearly 20 years, company founder Dr William Wright CBE’s being recorded as expressing a view in 1998 that they were ‘likely to become the mainstream buses of the future’. Now in his late 80s, William is still passionately leading the company’s development work […]
Originally conceived four years ago by Robert Lodge of Lodge Coaches to attract CPT Essex members to an annual get-together, the North Weald Hog Roast and Ride & Drive event has grown to welcome CPT members from across the country. Dot Grainger has since taken over as Chair of CPT Essex with Bill Hiron as […]
Stuart Jones has been to Essex to see the first products produced for the UK in China by Bus & Coach International, an Australian business. He also took a look at a Volvo B7TL retrofitted with the B320 hybrid package by Vantage Power with the tempting prospect of a 40% saving on fuel. The […]
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 […]