Stagecoach’s new £10m fleet of Van Hool Astromega TDX double deck coaches for its Oxford Tube service represents the largest ever investment in new coaches the company has ever made on the Oxford-London route. Several of the vehicles were displayed at the launch in Oxford, where Chris Peat witnessed the departure in service of the […]
Twenty five years ago the model that was to epitomise the brand for the next two decades first appeared. Called the Century in honour of the hundred years in business the company was celebrating at the time, examples of it now operate across the globe and despite the successful launch of the i4 and i6 […]
There are already a number of front-engined MAN chassis in New Zealand that have received coachwork suitable for both school bus application and local private charter work, and our experience with these vehicles may be of some interest to B&CB readers. Despite being a right-hand-drive country with the majority of road rules, regulations and signage […]
The main centre is at Mallusk a suburb of Belfast which is five minutes from the main motorway network. Belfast city centre and the ferry terminals are also close by. There has been a Mercedes-Benz dealer on this site for many years but it used to be operated by Agnews. In those days it did […]
Ten years on and the Routemaster Association staged a similar weekend event to celebrate the diamond jubilee of the type and demonstrate its many and varied subsequent lives. By early afternoon on Saturday, around 90 Routemasters were lined up along the long main boulevard of Finsbury Park. The organisers later reported that 136 had attended […]
What the law allows It has long been established that any person can use reasonable force to defend themselves in circumstances where it is necessary to do so. It is also the case that one can use reasonable force if it is necessary to defend another person. Section 76 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration […]
Pushing integration According to Russ, the move is expected to bring about a strategic change in direction for the business in 2014, seeing it concentrate much more on collaborative integrated solutions. Although it is fair to say the company is one of the best known suppliers of bus and coach CCTV, its latest activity involves […]
I recently visited the Luton/Dunstable operation and met up with Commercial Director, David Shelley and Luton Operations Manager, Dave Streeton at the garage on Dunstable’s Woodside Industrial Park to see first hand what this local business is all about. David Shelley commented, ‘Centrebus is fundamentally a lower cost operation. The majority of the routes operated […]