Heyfordian has added eight new NEOPLAN Tourliners into its fleet. The Bicester based operator has taken four 13.26m Tourliner Select Plus variants and four 13.8m Select Plus models. They will be used for long distance tour work and other private hire contracts throughout the UK and western Europe. The 13.26m versions have 55 seats, while […]
As part of its European expansion plans, Mellor has announced a new distributorship arrangement with E-VADE Gmbh of Germany. This agreement confirms E-VADE as exclusive distributors for Mellor in Germany and Austria. It follows the recent signing of a similar distributorship encompassing the Scandinavian region. While the initial focus will be on sales of the […]
Mellor Coachcraft caused something of a stir when it announced that it was developing an all-electric version of the market leading lowfloor, accessible minibus, the Orion. The Woodall Nicholson company followed that up earlier this year at the CV Show when it unveiled the prototype of the exciting new vehicle. So we set out to […]
Irizar UK’s new i4H hybrid is set for trials with Travel de Courcey Trials of the Irizar i4H hybrid coach are now launching in the UK this Autumn. The vehicle has already been through what the Spanish manufacturer describes as successful operational experience with hybrid commuter coaches in Madrid. Now, it is being readied for […]
London Hire – the vehicle specialist and small-bus operator – says it will be supporting Section 19 operators through the transition many need to make in light of the DfT’s new guidance. As exclusively revealed last week in Bus & Coach Buyer, the Department for Transport has advised Section 19 and Community Bus Permit 22 […]
National Express is adding thousands of extra seats to its services in light of what it describes as rail passengers facing “a month of chaos”. Throughout much of August (5 to 28 August) Waterloo Station will be partially closed for works causing disruption on rail services in the south including: Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Poole, Winchester, Salisbury […]
Were it not for the unmistakable flying horse logo on the tower, it would be easy to mistake Horseman Coaches’ Reading depot for a factory or warehouse. With 6000m3 (65,000 square feet) of covered space and an extensive glass-fronted administration block, the depot occupied from 2008 enables almost all activities and vehicle parking to be […]
Iveco Bus UK has begun to import its own minicoach versions of the New Daily. Called the Tourys they are entirely built within the Iveco Daily plant in Italy. In the past, Iveco had the Tourys versions of the previous Daily built by an independent bodybuilding company, but the switch to adapting the Daily in-house […]