City Circle UK Ltd has acquired 21 new coaches for this season and is evaluating some others, among them the first Euro6 Scania tri-axle with Irizar i6 coachwork. B&CB was keen to see how the new Scania performed and accepted the offer of City Circle UK’s MD, Neil Pegg, to visit their London facilities and […]
More entrants than ever took part in this year’s IRTE Skills Challenge. Some 60 technicians and apprentices from Abellio, Arriva, FirstGroup, Go-Ahead London, Go South Coast, London United, Metroline, Preston Bus, Tower Transit and Translink entered the competition. The event sees PCV technicians take part in bodywork, electrical and mechanical challenges at SMB Automotive Academy […]
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 […]