A new £3m depot in Ashington is the latest stage in Arriva North East’s £6m investment programme for Northumberland. The opening of the site follows the roll out of hybrid technology in the county in 2013. The company is confident it is now offering customers an enhanced journey experience that will see the bus become […]
The London Bus Museum is now well established in its new home within the Brooklands Museum of car and aircraft fame. It has a modern display hall, named Cobham Hall in homage to the museum’s previous rural location, where the story of the London Bus from horsebus to Routemaster and beyond comes to life in […]
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 […]