After being hosted at Alton Towers and the East of England Showground in Peterborough, the UK Coach Rally is going back to its seaside roots for its 62nd incarnation. Its new Blackpool location sees it return to the coast for the first time since the final Brighton event in 2009. Whether it’s the new location […]
Stagecoach Group has announced vehicle orders worth £97m for the 2016-17 financial year. Most of the 480 vehicle order has been placed with ADL for their MMC Enviro 200 and 400 ranges. The order also includes a number of Optare Solos, Plaxton bodied Volvo coaches, Van Hool coaches and Mercedes-Benz minibuses. The latest announcement takes […]
Milton Keynes based Omega Travel Ltd has ordered a further ten Scania Touring tri-axle coaches in what is the largest single order placed by a UK operator for the vehicle. The coaches are based on Scania’s K 410 SCR only chassis and are fitted with 57 seats, a centre toilet, a drinks machine, a DVD […]
‘2015 was the most successful year in the history of Daimler AG,’ said Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG, Dr. Manfred Bischoff, at the company’s recent Annual Shareholders’ Meeting in Berlin. With a total workforce of 284,015 (2014: 279,972), the Group sold more than 2.9m vehicles worldwide (2014: 2.5m), posted revenue of €149.5bn/£119.85bn (2014: €129.9bn/£104.14bn) and […]
Much has been said and written about the devastating floods which Storm Desmond delivered to Cumbria back in December, often followed with the exhortation to ‘please still come to visit and spend money.’ So last Sunday I took the opportunity to nip over to Grasmere for lunch. It was a glorious day, sunny and just […]
Rhodri and Debbie Evans have only been running Ffoshelig for the past 20 years since buying it from Des Jones in 1996, but he is the fourth generation of his family to live on the farm site at Maes Y Prior (Priory Meadow) near Carmarthen where the coach operation is now headquartered. The 50 acre […]
As we have mentioned numerous times in Bus and Coach Buyer, keeping vehicles clean is all part of what can be done to attract and retain passengers. This is not too hard to do with a smaller fleet, but as vehicle numbers get higher and depots to house them get larger, it becomes an ever […]
William Cannon has been beavering away for years at his base in Strabane, in the west of Northern Ireland, developing bus chassis. In his own small way he has been quite successful building and selling a small number of chassis which those operators who have bought them have been very satisfied with. William’s latest invention […]