Arriva as a group has been very innovative in developing marketing initiatives and the latest of them, MAX, was unveiled in a typically flamboyant manner in Newcastle on Monday evening. Held at the Life Science Centre in the heart of Newcastle in order to stress the idea of innovation, the launch featured an unusual special […]
The UK 12m single deck bus market is not as large as it once was, with midibuses and extended versions of midibuses claiming the dominant share of total single deck sales. Despite this, there are still operators who want to run something they see as heavier duty and among them is Simonds of Botesdale, now […]
Alexander Dennis Limited has broken through to mainland Europe, with the delivery of 20 Plaxton Elitei coaches to PolskiBus.com, the intercity express coach company launched in June 2011 by Souter Holdings. The company offers comfortable and inexpensive coach travel across Poland and extending to the capital cities of adjacent countries, Berlin, Bratislava, Prague and Vienna. […]
Undeniably, 30 years in any profession is commendable and this is just what Andy Baxter, founder and owner of Coach Multimedia Systems (CMS) has achieved. He has spent three decades in the business of supplying and installing audio, visual and security systems on PCVs. However, it was in 2008 that he struck out on his […]
The International Bus & Coach of the Year jury, consisting of jury members from 20 of Europe’s leading bus and coach trade magazines, has voted the MAN Lion’s City GL CNG the Bus of the Year 2015. The award follows thorough testing of the five candidates at the BusEuroTest 2014 event held in Lucerne, Switzerland […]
Early this year we took a first look at Volvo’s right hand drive Euro6 coach products when we carried out an evaluation of the three-axle B11R with the company’s own 9700 coachwork (B&CB issue 1261, 31 January 2014). Traditionally, volume sales of the marque’s chassis have been in combination with the range of models from […]
The latest new vehicle added to their range of Mercedes-Benz Sprinter based models by EVM the specialist vehicle converters, is a low floor, directly wheelchair accessible model called the Community. I recently visited EVM’s Horsham, West Sussex premises to inspect and drive the prototype of the new model. I began by asking Sales Director of […]
There are very few preserved bus or coach models, outside of the main London Transport types, that continue to exist in sufficient numbers to warrant an organisation solely devoted to them rather than the marque to which they belong. A notable exception is the Bedford OB which, in bus and coach terms, was built in […]