Plastisol UK last week staged a two day event at the Millbrook testing centre in Bedfordshire to give potential customers and stakeholders the opportunity to see and learn more about its composite products and alternative drive systems. Operations Director, Ben Jardine and Sales Director, Peter Anderson gave a presentation detailing what the company does after […]
Why do we have TUPE? For some operators, the answer to this question might be somewhat dangerous to put in print. However, basically TUPE is there to protect the rights of workers when a business changes hands. More recently, judges have also emphasised the need for business certainty for employers especially for those contemplating taking […]
There are not many brands that can boast having been going for 70 years. One that can is Britannia, the range of wash systems from Smith Bros & Webb. The renowned vehicle wash manufacturer has achieved three score years and ten with this brand and is not only surviving, but thriving. Chris Peat met Sales […]
Millbrook Proving Ground in Bedfordshire played host to the Cenex Low Carbon Vehicle Event 2014 (LCV2014), which provided a platform for some of the industry’s most cutting-edge green and efficient technologies to be presented. Chris Peat attended the exhibition to gather details of some of the latest environmentally friendly and fuel saving equipment being developed […]
SJ. Remind me about your background in the industry? BD. From BAE, with whom I spent ten years on aircraft, I joined Walter Alexander in 1996 as Materials Supply Director. Within a year I was Production Director running all the manufacturing. In 1998 I was asked to go and rescue a Mayflower business in the […]
With rural buses under threat across the UK, it takes someone brave or driven to start a completely new rural commercial service network in an area where the views are fabulous but the chimney pots are few. Steve Hurst is both brave and driven. At 29 he has the advantage of the energy of youth […]
Sightseeing buses were once the cinderallas of the fleet, old double-deckers shorn of their roof parading slowly around historic cities and seafonts for perhaps a few months of the year. With increasing popularity and longer seasons, operators realised that easier access and lower emissions were essential to sustainability resulting in significant numbers of new build […]
In the presence of stakeholders and guests from across the industry, Transport Minister, Baroness Kramer, has officially launched Reading Buses’ £1m gas station. The project, partly funded by a one off Gas Bus Infrastructure Support Grant from the DfT, supports Reading Buses’ current fleet of 34 Scania ADL gas buses and is scalable for future […]