Nick Jones, the Traffic Commissioner for Wales, has refused to grant Express Motors (Caernarfon) Ltd a passenger transport licence, concluding that the business fell “well short” of meeting the requirements. The request for the licence was made by Mrs Rhian Wyn Davies, the daughter of former owners, Eric and Jean Jones, whose brothers Kevin and […]
Shearings Holidays is adding 30 new Mercedes-Benz Tourismos to its fleet. To the company’s Celebration Class specification, the coaches are due to be delivered to the operator in May. The new vehicles are part of the business’s ongoing vehicle renewal programme. Each coach is individually named after loyal customers and drivers both past and present […]
Martyn Hoare and I cannot be sure how long ago it was that I last visited, but it’s pretty clear to me that Bluebird Coaches of Weymouth has come a long way since. I remember a traditional coach operation with its feet firmly planted in the town, its seafront travel shop providing that mainstay of […]
Timberbush Tours is celebrating 20 years of touring in 2018 and has just invested £1.2m in nine new coaches. Timberbush has purchased a new 47-seater MAN Barbie Galileo 47-seater from BASE Coach Sales. Mercedes-Benz make up the rest of the compliment, with three Atego based Indcar 33-seaters purchased from Moseley Distributors and two 19-seater and […]
Till Oberwörder has been named as the new Head of Daimler Buses and Chief Executive of EvoBus GmbH as of 1 April 2018. He succeeds Hartmut Schick, who will take over responsibility for Daimler Trucks Asia on the same date. Till has been Head of Marketing, Sales and Services Mercedes‑Benz Trucks since 1 July 2015. […]
Go-Ahead Group owned Damory Coaches has responded to the financial pressures facing schools in Dorset by introducing significantly larger vehicles to its fleet. The company has upseated six Caetano-bodied Volvo B9R coaches, which had been used on National Express services by fellow-subsidiary Excelsior Coaches. Damory launched its new vehicles last week with teachers and pupils […]
Boulder Bridge Lane near Barnsley is the stuff of legend; the place where buses and coaches meet their maker. On the face of it, breaking up PSVs may seem a simple act of destruction but, as we discovered, it’s actually a complex and risky business, paying ahead for raw materials which may fall in value […]
In this week’s issue, B&CB visits the community of bus dismantlers and recyclers just outside of Barnsley. It was, above all else, humbling. Carving buses apart with a cutting torch is a hard business. Even in snow, the work goes on; tough men working in the grime of smoke, grease, oil and mud to reduce […]