West Midlands based Parrys International is offering a three night visit to Belgium, which will include a tour of the Van Hool factory near Lier. Departing on 27 January, the trip will travel via Eurotunnel to stay at the centrally situated Novotel Hotel in Bruges. On 29 January, there will be a day visit to […]
Galway based City Direct has announced the introduction of mobile defibrillators on their National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) Park & Ride shuttle buses. Since 2009, the vehicles have been used to run a service to and from the college for more than 17,500 students and 2,000 staff members. It has just installed the life […]
In the third quarter of 2013, Daimler AG achieved ‘significantly higher’ earnings than in the prior year period. The company’s EBIT for the period of July through September amounted to £1,906.4m/€2,231m (Q3 2012: £1,643.2m/€1,923m). Net profit reached £1,621m/€1,897m (Q3 2012: ￡1,057.9m/€1,238m). Earnings per share were ￡1.47/€1.72 (Q3 2012: £0.91/€1.06). Daimler Buses increased its worldwide sales […]
Profitability remains ‘satisfactory’ at Stagecoach, according to its latest trading update. Its like for like revenue growth for the 24 weeks ended 13 October 2013 was 5% in its UK Bus (regional) operations. This part of the company’s business has ‘performed strongly’ and has experienced passenger and revenue increase year on year. Revenue growth in […]
In its Interim Management Statement, Go-Ahead reported a ‘robust’ performance in all of its divisions in the period from 30 June 2013 to 23 October 2013. In its deregulated bus business during the period, underlying revenue growth (excluding the benefit of delivering transport for the Olympic sailing events in Weymouth) was in line with expectations […]
Five local authorities are to receive a share of ￡1.4m to cut pollution from buses. The councils are: Brighton and Hove City Council (￡750,000 for 50 buses), Sunderland City Council and Durham County Council (￡275,500 for 19 buses), Oxford City Council (￡199,995 for 11 buses), Swale Borough Council (￡150,000 for ten buses) and City of […]
Cresta Coaches of Bridgend has taken delivery of two Noone Turas 800 bodied Mercedes-Benz Vario 818 minicoaches. One of the vehicles has 29 Politecnica seats, two tables and a red interior, whilst the other has 33 Politecnica seats and blue interior. They each have an Autoclima air conditioning system, convection heating, a reversing camera and […]
EYMS Group has sold its Finglands coach operation to Bullocks Coaches of Manchester, with this part of its business passing over to the new owner later this month. The sale includes all but two of the existing Finglands coach fleet and all staff employed in the operation are being offered jobs at Bullocks under their […]