Eddie Brown Tours of Wetherby, Yorkshire, has advised North Yorkshire County Council that it can no longer operate several contracted local bus services. The announcement was made with immediate affect on 9 December 2014. The services included four school services and bus routes 56, 56A, 57, 57A, 58, 142 and 143. The school services have […]
Johnsons Coach & Bus Travel of Henley-in-Arden has agreed to acquire the Whittle’s coaching division from Hull based EYMS Group. The sale is scheduled to be completed by around 10 January 2015 after EYMS took the decision to sell or close the Kidderminster based Whittle Coach & Bus Ltd subsidiary in October. The agreement secures […]
Western Greyhound has announced the sale of the rest of its business following last week’s sale of its Liskeard outstation operation to Go-Ahead subsidiary, Plymouth CityBus. Michael Bishop, an entrepreneur from within the bus and coach industry, has purchased the entire share capital of Western Greyhound from its MD, Mark Howarth, his wife Mari and […]
A partnership agreement between The City of York Council and First has provided free wi-fi across a number of the city’s services, including all of its park and ride routes. Forty seven of First York’s vehicles have been fitted with the free wi-fi thanks to a grant of £320k awarded to the council by the […]
I first wrote about John Bruce around 30 years ago when Bruce’s of Airdrie was in its early years. In July of last year John invited me to visit him in Scotland to talk about the company. It specialises in high mileage contract work and had just invested £400,000 in a new Van Hool TX17 […]
Oral evidence sessions into the proposed Quality Contract Scheme (QCS) for the north east’s bus network are to be held by the Quality Contract Scheme (QCS) board in March and April 2015. Chair of the Quality Contract Scheme (QCS) board, Kevin Rooney, indicated that the complexity of the North East Quality Scheme, the changes to […]
Big developments are happening at Banbury, Oxfordshire based Uniform Express Ltd, which is on a path towards increasing its share of the bus and coach uniform market. One of its latest expansions is the acquisition of another uniform supply company, The Work Clothing Group, which has expanded its own range and customer base (more on […]
The Forecourt and Fuel Solutions Roadshows are a series of established regional exhibitions held in five destinations across the country. Organised by Thames Communications based in Gravesend, Kent, the events have been running for a number of years. B&CB attended the show at the Cedar Court Hotel in Wakefield to find out more about some […]