First Manchester Ltd has been given Office of Fair Trading (OFT) approval to acquire the Manchester bus business of Finglands Coachways Ltd, which is part of the East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) Group. Finglands operates a number of commercial bus services and school contracts to the south and east of Manchester. First will take over […]

Exciting times are ahead for battery pack specialist, Powervamp, as it introduces a new look for its products in its 20th year in business. Fresh labelling is being applied to the company’s range of jump start packs in an effort to not only bring their image right up to date, but also to make the […]

When Volvo announced its Euro6 product line up last April, Hakan Karlsson, now Head of Business Areas Volvo Group, which includes Volvo Buses, made it clear that the company was already looking much further ahead towards a future based on electromobility. Present at the event was a significant step on that journey, the first plug […]

It was a positive blue Monday in Telford this week as Arriva Midlands launched a new fleet of vehicles for the 481 route linking Telford with Stafford. The six blue liveried Wrightbus VDL single-deckers will provide additional capacity to support the continued growth of patronage on a route that has already seen frequency increases and […]

Sharpe & Sons Ltd has taken delivery of a 14.4m Van Hool TDX21 Altano. Powered by a 480bhp MAN 12.4litre D2676 LOH26 EEV engine coupled with an AS-Tronic 12-speed AS 2301 transmission, it has 65 + 3 + 2 Body Luxe seats, a wheelchair place with ramp and fixings, a roof mounted air conditioning system, […]

Gillingham, Kent based The Kings Ferry, has added two Plaxton Cheetahs to its fleet. The 8.5m Mercedes-Benz Vario 0.816D based vehicles are intended for a university contract between the Medway towns and Canterbury during the week and will be available for small group private hire over the weekend. They feature 29 Relax Tourismo reclining seats, […]

Stagecoach North East has teamed up with Solo Martial Arts in Newcastle to offer bus passengers a free martial arts or fitness class throughout January. Operations Director, Stagecoach North East, Matt Cranwell, said, ‘We’re keen to encourage the local community to be more active and improve their health and wellbeing – and taking the bus […]

Richard Jones, General Manager of Lloyds Coaches, Machynlleth, has announced that he is stepping down today (24th) from his position in pursuit of ‘pastures new’ and a ‘fresh challenge’. He told B&CB that during over four years with Lloyds he felt he had ‘certainly put the company on the map’, and shown that ‘it is […]