This month sees the second anniversary of BUSK’s Simply Safe scheme, set up to provide schools with a list of operators in their area that have been assessed for legal and safety checks, ensuring that both the vehicles and drivers are compliant to their exacting standards. The background information required is covered by a five […]
Top of the range Even if you have not heard of Nutexa, you may well have braked with them. Its pads are fitted to some of the most modern buses running in the UK and abroad. The company has been one of the leaders in the market for many years and throughout that time, it […]
Colin Rowland and his family and team welcomed members of the public, operators and enthusiasts alike to the event on a bright but chilly Good Friday. In addition to the opportunity to have a look round Rambler’s premises and inspect the varied fleet, there were a number of other attractions including Colin’s collection of heritage […]
The McCarthy family was an industrious one, the coach business representing a new strand to an empire that already included a grocer’s shop in Hurdsfield run by Roy’s wife, Margaret. This served workers at one of the silk mills for which Macclesfield was once famous. They manufactured parachutes during the war but the entire operation […]
For contractual reasons to do with his departure from our previous employers, Steve couldn’t sell the advertising on that first issue, so the task of convincing our potential advertisers that we were the medium in which they needed to invest their advertising budgets initially fell partly to me. Consequently, during that pre-launch period before our […]
To celebrate the exact centenary of the first service and mark 40 years since the end of Coventry Corporation Transport, local organisations staged an ‘On The Buses’ family event in the city’s Millennium Square opposite the old fire station terminal point of that first service. Millennium Square, the forecourt of Coventry’s soon to be expanded […]
Tata-Hispano’s Zaragoza plant produced the Intea high capacity low height body for the UK on the MAN A91-18.293HOCL chassis powered by a 293bhp engine, as well a single Xerus high floor coach on a VDL SB4000 chassis that is part of Holmeswood’s own fleet. Unfortunately, only eight Inteas had been supplied in right hand drive […]
Air conditioning advice One of the most common problems with air conditioning systems, according to JAVAC’s Dave Kingston, is loss of refrigerant. The less there is in the system, the lower its cooling capacity. Instead of waiting till the required temperature for the air conditioning to work is met to find out if there are […]