The main sectors in which it is involved are midi coaches for touring and schools applications and airport buses, though it is also branching out in other directions with plans announced for city buses and chassis systems. In the UK only one product has entered service thus far, the Vive TH high floor midi coach […]
The coach operation was started by Fred Owen as a sideline to his main business and his son Mike became the Managing Director of the business in the 1990s. Fred maintained an active role well into his seventies, until he passed away ten years ago. After completing his National Service in the RAF, Fred became […]
In 2003 Giles Fearnley, Stuart Wilde and the team at what was then the Harrogate & District operation of Blazefield Holdings relaunched the 36 service between Leeds, Harrogate and Ripon in a revolutionary move that started an immensely positive trend in the industry. The introduction of leather seats in dedicated branded high specification buses set […]
BorderBus may well be a relatively new name in the industry, having only been set up in 2013, however its founder and MD, Andrew Pursey, is a name many might be familiar with. Andrew was the last family member to have run Anglianbus, the Beccles, Suffolk based operator that was sold to the Go-Ahead Group […]
Not only can effectively utilising your own workshop save money, it can be a profit rather than a cost centre if you open it up to take on extra third party jobs, providing you have the capacity to do so. With the closing of DVSA’s own sites, some operators are seizing the opportunity by installing […]
SMMT plays a key role in representing the UK automotive industry and its annual bus and coach press briefing is an opportunity to review the market and look at trends going forward. The meeting usually follows one of SMMT Bus and Coach Section’s quarterly meetings and in the past has been chaired by the section’s […]
With Neoplan’s decision to drop the Starliner coupled with Daimler’s earlier decision to discontinue sales of the Setra family in the UK and Van Hool currently dominating the small sector at the peak of the market it is perhaps the ideal time for Irizar to launch a new flagship coach range in the UK. The […]
Scania was not initially responsible for rekindling UK interest in gas as a fuel for bus operation but it has monopolised recent sales of buses equipped with the technology since the first examples went into service in April 2013. There are now close to 80 compressed natural gas (CNG) fuelled single deck buses in service […]