Go-Ahead Group has agreed a deal to acquire Swanbrook Transport, a bus and coach operator based in Cheltenham. Swanbrook operates local bus, home to school services and private hire and will become part of Pulhams Coaches, which sits in Go-Ahead’s Oxford division. This latest deal builds on Go-Ahead’s recent acquisitions across England, including four coach […]
McGill’s Group-owned Xplore Dundee is to increase the frequency of its FLY service between Dundee and Edinburgh Airport. Starting from 1 December, peak-time services will operate every hour, rather than every 90 minutes, enhancing options for both business and leisure travellers. This improvement increases the number of coaches being used at peak times to three, […]
Coach operators across Britain have warned that the long-term viability of their business is under threat from changes to Inheritance Tax announced by the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves. A survey by the CPT suggests 71% of coach operators will be affected by the change to inheritance tax rules. About 85% of small and medium sized coach […]
Warwickshire Travel has chosen Stertil-Koni’s mobile column lifts to streamline its outdoor maintenance operations. Based in Princethorpe, Warwickshire, the company operates a fleet of coaches, buses and minibuses. Due to height restrictions within its workshop, the operator carries out essential maintenance outdoors. To support these operations, Stertil-Koni supplied cabled mobile column lifts with specialised protective […]
Membership organisation CILT (UK) is bringing back its BusMark scheme. Industry stalwart, Austin Birks, was on the membership organisation’s stand at Euro Bus Expo to tell people about the benchmarking scheme, which carries out an annual survey supplemented by seasonal snapshot questionnaires, that help establish the position of operators on a number of key themes […]
Chapman Seating gained much attention at Euro Bus Expo for its next generation of drivers seats: the All-Ride. The new seats have been created with the company’s existing design focuses in mind (comfort, failsafe and maintainable), as well as with the additions of inclusivity and sustainability. They feature no foam, instead using spring mattresses from […]
Romanian-built Cento is now to be sold in the UK through a partnership between John Hill Coach Sales and Williams Coaches of Brecon. Although it has been in the UK for over a decade – imported as one-offs – Cento comes from former a operator turned manufacturer One of a number of accomplished Romanian converters, […]
Fresh from celebrating delivery of the 1,000th Brian Noone vehicle at the Dublin show, Noone and its UK distributor Jones Coach and Bus Sales were showing off a range of models at Euro Bus Expo. Fielding most of the range on its stand, the pairing had examples of the 900s which will be available with […]