Ralph Bullock (Junior) died peacefully at home on 20 June 2019. He was 90, the same age as the Manchester-based company. Apart from a period of National Service, and a year in Australia shortly after the end of WWII, he spent his entire working life with the family firm. The business had been founded by […]
Following a devastating fire at Ashcroft Travel at the end of June, the Widnes-based operator’s spirits have been warmed with a card and gift from Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School in Widnes. A statement on the operator’s Twitter feed said: “A huge thank you to everybody at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour […]
The Imberbus run to the oddity of Imber returns on Saturday 17 August 2019. The event sees several London Transport Routemasters run a service to the abandoned village of Imber on the Salisbury Plain. The service runs from Warminster Station to Imber and to other isolated locations on the Salisbury Plain. As the buses will […]
Moseley Distributors does more than just supply vehicles, it can also modify them to meet customer requirements, and it has done this recently with a pair of 12.2m VDL Futura FHD, which it converted to meet DDI 1 and 3 standards. The first coach has gone to Bay Travel of Cowdenbeath and it was so […]
Operators into Birmingham – now delaying its Clean Air Zone until next summer – have been urged to apply for part of the £10m upgrade funding. The Confederation of Passenger Transport’s Midlands region says the city has now confirmed that the CAZ won’t start until July 2020 at the earliest, but says that the clock […]
Finalists for National Express’s Driving Design competition have been named. Over the past few months, artists from all over the UK have been creating artwork for a chance to see it spread across the side of a 14m National Express coach. The final eight designs have been chosen and are now open to a public […]
Fye’s Executive Travel, trading as Cleator Bus Cumbria, is to have its operator’s licence revoked with effect from 19 July 2019 at 23:59 hours. It has a standard vehicle operator’s licence for five vehicles. The decision was made by Simon Evans, Traffic Commissioner for the North West of England. The revocation has been made due to […]
When EVM launched its Sprinter-based Low Floor in 2013, it causes a ripple of interest in the bus market, but only a ripple. The thinking was clear; if you’re going to engineer a vehicle for bus work, make sure it’s durable, and with EVM’s long experience of Sprinter, that was a given. The engineering work, […]