A quarter of a century is a commendable amount of time to run a business, and the Netherlands based lubrication system specialist, Groeneveld, has just reached the milestone of 25 years of operating in the UK. To mark the occasion, it held a series of open days at its Shepshed site earlier this month and […]
Industry watchdog, Transport Focus, has held a series of seminars following the launch of its recently published report, ‘What’s the Hold Up? Exploring Bus Service Punctuality’. They saw operators and Traffic Commissioners speak on punctuality. Chris Peat attended the Cambridge event. Mike Bartram First to speak was Bus Policy Advisor at Transport Focus, Mike Bartram, […]
Having been associated with the Marcopolo, Beulas and Tata-Hispano brands until relatively recently, BASE Coach Sales, the dealership subsidiary of Holmeswood Coaches, has in the last 12 months effectively started again with the range of products it offers to operators. With the demise of Tata-Hispano at the end of 2013 and Beulas’s decision last year […]
Safety and security are major issues in the industry. There is a lot to protect, from passengers and staff to expensive assets. To get an insight into some of the latest equipment available to help, Chris Peat visited the IFSEC (International Fire and Security) exhibition at the ExCel Centre in London, a get together of […]
Mike Beagrie is a well known face in the bus and coach industry, from his 12 years at Evobus UK. He was responsible for the coach business up to 2013, before running both the coach and bus divisions until later that same year, when he assumed responsibility for the business as MD and Interim CEO. […]
For a relatively small coachbuilder by modern day standards, producing around 300 bodies annually, the Spanish Beulas concern offers an amazing variety of products ranging from the diminutive Gianino midicoach up to the double deck Jewel. The company first came to the UK in the 1990s in conjunction with Iveco and Coach Europe, offering the […]
Since taking over the UK franchise to sell the luxury minicoaches produced by Spanish builder Ferqui, Steve Peach of Connaught PSV has re-established the brand as one of the most popular in 16-36 seat sector. Ferqui had previously been marketed by Optare and in recent years the best known products have been the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter […]
We covered the Open Day event at Quality Line’s premises a few week’s ago which tied in with the 95th anniversary of Epsom Coaches, and last weekend saw the spotlight move to the third largest Metroline garage at Potters Bar in Hertfordshire, the most northerly of Metroline’s 14 London garage facilities and the only located […]