Fast forward eight years and the business has grown further, consolidating its core operations in the West Midlands whilst expanding into tours and executive private hire work, at all times keeping the focus on the bottom line, ensuring only secure and profitable work is taken on. Geoff’s daughter, Ros Hadley, has moved into the MD’s […]
For 2014, the rally and UK Coach Awards have gone their separate ways following the co-ordinated event in 2013. This appears to have had minimal impact on attendance at the rally itself which, at 41, attracted slightly more entries, likely driven by the Diamond Jubilee significance and an increase in multiple entries. With dual sourcing […]
The London Bus Museum is now well established in its new home within the Brooklands Museum of car and aircraft fame. It has a modern display hall, named Cobham Hall in homage to the museum’s previous rural location, where the story of the London Bus from horsebus to Routemaster and beyond comes to life in […]
Warnings Xvision is a proximity sensor system that can be fitted to the corner, rear or side of a coach or bus. It provides audible and visual warnings when the vehicle gets too close to an object. According to Steve, other products available communicate between the sensor and monitor using a Bluetooth connection or separate […]
Accessories & parts Alliance Electronics Ltd was showing its wide array of electrical parts for PSVs. Amongst them was a strengthened indicator switch. The company also supplies Powervamp chargers and power solutions, some of which were also exhibited. A new range of wheel safety products were displayed by Checkpoint, the company known as the world […]
As most readers will know many mass produced vans appear under various brand names but most of them are only actually built by two conglomerates. For example Renault, Vauxhall (Opel) and Nissan van products are all clones of each other and similarly Fiat, Peugeot and Citroen vans originate in the same facilities. However, each manufacturer […]
Investment is key to achieving growth, because it can’t be achieved if you haven’t got products that people want, and ADL’s determination to make sure that they can supply buses operators want to run has seen the number of new product development (NPD) projects in hand more than double from 11 in 2011 to 23 […]
That Practice Direction related to the standards expected of local bus services in relation to punctuality. Many operators found the Practice Direction not a model of clarity and on a number of occasions issues on the meaning of the document were appealed to the Transport Tribunal. In December 2011 the Practice Direction was effectively adopted […]