Coach operators around the country have been alerting their MPs to the plight of their businesses, including Masons Minibus and Coach Hire, in Hertfordshire. The company’s business development manager, Candice Mason, worked her contacts to alert local MP, Greg Smith, to the problems right at the start of lockdown: “I then supplied weekly updates and […]
Moseley (PCV), the Pontefract dealership for VDL, Indcar and Beulas coaches, has gone into administration with all but eight staff made redundant. The dealership closed its Moseley in the South arm early in the lockdown, with an auction of vehicles based there, but appears to have been unable to keep the business viable. The business […]
HCT Group, the former Hackney Community Transport not-for-profit, has posted losses of almost £1.5 million, and breached its covenants, having recorded a £0.89m profit in 2017/18. The annual report also reveals that last year, a ‘cyberattack’ managed to destroy all of its financial data, leaving it to recreate it own figures. In law, companies are […]
As the country starts easing out of lockdown, Stone King in conjunction with Bus and Coach Buyer led an online seminar to discuss the affects of COVID-19 on the industry. Taking a different style to the standard seminar, ‘The Conversation’ aimed to be just that, a candid discussion about the current situation and its […]
Arriva Bus & Coach has reassured operators that it’s very much in business, following rumours of closure. A spokesman for the company said: “We have recently completed a planned review of Arriva Bus and Coach and are proposing to significantly downsize the business to reduce its costs. “We have now started formal consultation proceedings with […]
UNVI is to build its SIL double-deck coach model in right-hand drive for the UK market, with a class-leading 97 seats. The UNVI SIL coach which was exhibited at the last Busworld, in Brussels, is a tri-axle 14m with 67 upper-deck seats and a front-door, wheelchair-accessible lower saloon meeting PSVAR demands. It has a 9m3 […]
The industry’s biennial exhibition, Euro Bus Expo, has been postponed a full year, and its 2020 awards event cancelled. Show organiser Diversified Communications UK now says the trade show for the coach, bus and minibus sector will now be held on 26 – 28 October, 2021 at the NEC Birmingham. Bus and Coach Buyer has […]
