Coach News

Shifting times

Coach operators are benefiting from intense competition among both vertically-integrated and proprietary manufacturers to produce ever more sophisticated automated manual transmissions, but reports of the death of the automatic torque-converter transmission in coaches are premature […]

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Business

Scania invests in Corebon

Scania Growth Capital has invested SEK35m (£2.98m) in Corebon AB, a Swedish materials tech start-up that has developed a method for producing carbon fibre components. Corebon has invented what is described as the world’s fastest […]

Bus News

Engineering success

Karl Smith spoke to Angela Youngman about his role with Xelabus and the company’s operations Back in the 1980s, Karl Smith’s father discouraged him from following in his footsteps as a vehicle engineer. Instead, Karl […]