Features
New book remembers Charles Cook
A new book is celebrating the former Bedfordshire bus and coach operator Charles Cook Travel. Almost 75 years ago, fledgeling taxi proprietor Charles Cook purchased […]
Month: June 2022
Features
Encourage enthusiasts to solve staff shortages
According to one independent operator and preservationist, enthusiasts could help alleviate the driver shortage, reports Nick Larkin Encouraging enthusiasts to drive is a way to help solve shortages in the bus industry, says Brian Clifford, […]
Features
Is this the oldest wheelchair accessible vehicle in the world?
At nearly 90 years old, this beautifully renovated 1933 Leyland Club can be found at the Beamish Museum in the North East of England. Having spent seven years lovingly bringing this vintage bus back to […]
Features
DRT: The right route?
In the second part of his feature on demand responsive transport, Jonathan Welch continues his conversation with Roger French about its rising popularity Picking up where we left off our conversation in issue 1528, and expanding […]
Features
Platinum parade
HM The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee parade was without doubt the most prestigious event ever to involve heritage buses. NICK LARKIN talks to the people who made it possible Many millions of people watched seven classic […]
Electric
Evolving Equipmake
Norfolk-based Equipmake is on the verge of releasing its first brand new double-decker bus onto the streets of London for in service trials. Richard Sharman speaks to the man behind the company who started out […]
Bus News
Euro Switch on
Jonathan Welch speaks to some of the team behind the new Switch e1 electric bus aimed at the European market As reported in our news pages this week, Switch Mobility has launched its new European city […]
News
CBW and Coachmart founder Terry Beanland passes away
The founder of CBW’s predecessor Coachmart, Terry Beanland, passed away peacefully last week at the age of 76 after losing his fight with cancer. In the early 1970s he set up Hull-based Kingston International Coaches which ran Bedford and Ford coaches overland […]
Business
Go-Ahead Group receives two takeover bids
As we went to press on Monday 13 June, the Go-Ahead Group announced that it had received two separate takeover bids The Kelsian Group and a consortium consisting of Kinetic and Globalvia Inversiones have made separate unsolicited, conditional approaches regarding possible cash […]
Bus News
Go-Ahead reshuffle as Martijn Gilbert moves to rail
Go-Ahead has announced a management and operating company restructure in the wake of the news that well known industry figure Martijn Gilbert is moving to the rails In an announcement that surprised the bus industry […]
