Volkswagen’s (VW’s) offer for Scania’s shares has been declared unconditional with VW to become the owner of 90.47% of all shares in Scania on completion of the offer. The offer made to the shareholders of Scania Aktiebolag on 21st February 2014 invited them to tender all shares in Scania to VW at a price of […]

Ballymena based Wrights Group is investing over £14m in five research and development projects and is also creating 130 new jobs. The company already employs around 1,800 staff in Northern Ireland. The new jobs are being created in Wright EN-Drive, the company’s dedicated facility for the design and manufacture of integral vehicle chassis. Invest NI […]

Trading has been ‘positive’ for National Express Group in the period from 1 January 2014 to date, according to its interim management statement, with Group revenue up 2%. All its UK divisions have delivered strong growth, supported by rising passenger demand. In its UK Bus division, like for like commercial revenue grew by 3%. Commercial […]

Bus and coach registrations in April this year were up 35.5% compared to the same month last year, according to SMMT figures. This has lead to a rolling year total of 7,861, a 4% rise. SMMT Chief Executive, Mike Hawes, said, ‘April saw a large number of bus and coach orders hit the road resulting […]

Warnings Xvision is a proximity sensor system that can be fitted to the corner, rear or side of a coach or bus. It provides audible and visual warnings when the vehicle gets too close to an object. According to Steve, other products available communicate between the sensor and monitor using a Bluetooth connection or separate […]

Accessories & parts Alliance Electronics Ltd was showing its wide array of electrical parts for PSVs. Amongst them was a strengthened indicator switch. The company also supplies Powervamp chargers and power solutions, some of which were also exhibited. A new range of wheel safety products were displayed by Checkpoint, the company known as the world […]

As most readers will know many mass produced vans appear under various brand names but most of them are only actually built by two conglomerates. For example Renault, Vauxhall (Opel) and Nissan van products are all clones of each other and similarly Fiat, Peugeot and Citroen vans originate in the same facilities. However, each manufacturer […]

Investment is key to achieving growth, because it can’t be achieved if you haven’t got products that people want, and ADL’s determination to make sure that they can supply buses operators want to run has seen the number of new product development (NPD) projects in hand more than double from 11 in 2011 to 23 […]