Spanish coachbuilder Sunsundegui has now entered liquidation. As a result, 341 jobs are lost. B&CB originally announced the company’s woes in September 2024, when the manufacturer filed for administration so it could buy time to negotiate with its creditors. The company was burdened by €48.8m debt and has been under insolvency proceedings since November 2024. […]
Alexander Dennis has delivered a new Enviro400 double-decker and two Enviro200 single-deckers to English operator Weardale Motor Services. The new Enviro400 is the third of the type for Stanhope, County Durham-based Weardale and is fitted with 84 high-backed seats alongside an additional tip-up seat in the wheelchair space. The Enviro200 additions include an 8.9m vehicle […]
This year’s ALBUM Conference raised £8,000 for cancer support specialist Maggie’s Nottingham. The money was raised through a silent auction held during the Conference’s Gala Dinner, alongside a generous donation from the winners of the Curry and Quiz Night, InSol Recruitment, who donated their prize money to the charity. The ALBUM Conference 2025 was hosted […]
Nottingham City Transport (NCT) and Adverta have struck a new five-year advertising income deal designed to help safeguard services and fares. The deal provides businesses with targeted and tailored advertising using the over 250 vehicles in the award-winning operator’s fleet. The deal means that profits generated from advertising are ploughed back into the services. Adverta […]
Harvey Stroud has been named Lothian’s Driver of the Year. Harvey took the top spot at the operator’s annual Bus Driver of the Year final at the Royal Highland Centre in Ingliston. The competition saw 18 finalists from across the Lothian Group compete on the day, excelling in three challenges: a theory test, a practical […]
Following his treatise on Duple and its long running Dominant product, Howard Berry turns his attention to the final years of Duple coach production including the Laser, looking much like an evolved Dominant and the squarer high specification Caribbean, both of which ran to .2 versions. The squarer styling continued to the 300 series and […]
Following on from his Plaxton trilogy, Howard Berry has turned his attention to the UK’s other leading builder of coach bodies in the mid 20th Century, Duple and its long running Dominant product. Launched in 1972 in response to Plaxton’s Panorama Elite, it would be refreshed twice during production producing the Dominant II and IV. […]
Andrew Wickham MBE, Managing Director, Go South Coast has passed away. He was 59. Andrew spent over 30 years with the Go-Ahead Group. He was an Operations Manager with London General before becoming Go-Ahead Group’s Development Manager under Chris Moyes. When Wilts & Dorset was acquired by Go-Ahead in 2003, he became Operations Director beginning […]