MAN’s Lion’s Intercity coach was awarded the iF Gold Award 2016, making it one of just 75 gold prize winners out of a total of 5,295 entries submitted. In the ‘Automobiles/Vehicle/Bikes’ category, the MAN Lion’s Intercity thus beat contenders such as sports cars and motorbikes made by household names. The award panel said, ‘This intercity […]
Paramount Conversions has moved to a new site. The new address is Riverview Commercial Park, Tullamore, Offaly, Ireland. The move has been made after the business grew ‘significantly’ over the last 18 to 24 months. The new facility is larger, allowing the firm to build more vehicles, with ease of access and movement around the […]
Gillingham, Kent, based The Kings Ferry has launched a new express service and doubled an existing service to provide customers with improved connections to the capital. Complimentary fruit was provided to all passengers on launch day 26 February. The 727 City Express service will bypass the often congested Blackwall Tunnel and Canary Wharf, taking a […]
Revenues, profits and margins were up in all of National Express’s divisions, according to its results for the full year ended 31 December 2015. At Group level, its revenue amounted to £1.92bn (2014: £1.87bn), a 2.8% improvement. Its normalised operating profit rose 15.5% from the previous year to £193.5m (2014: £167.6m). The operator’s UK Coach […]
West Coast Motors has acquired Berwick-upon-Tweed based Perryman’s Buses Ltd. Perryman’s is a family business built up by Richard and Linda Perryman operating a range of commercial and supported bus services in the Scottish Borders and Northumberland, as well as offering private hire services and seasonal coach tours. It employs approximately 75 staff and operates […]
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has confirmed an order with Wrightbus for another 195 of the iconic New Routemasters for the capital. The announcement was made during a trip to Northern Ireland, which included a visit to the Wrightbus chassis plant that was created as a direct result of orders for these buses. The deal […]
From 14 to 16 June 2016, Paris is to host Transport Publics 2016, the European Mobility Exhibition. The specialist trade show is set to bring together 10,000 stakeholders in sustainable mobility, including elected officials, operators, manufacturers, service companies, institutional players and journalists. Over 58 countries will be represented at the event. A dozen technical and […]
Over the past decade or so the Van Hool range has been moving steadily towards the upper end of the market with the result that most of the coach products it has built for the UK have been to executive, super executive or long distance express specifications, with little or nothing in the standard coach […]