Coaches
Bedford banned from New Zealand
An operator who bought a Duple-bodied Bedford SBG coach in Britain to use on tour work in New Zealand has decided not to import the vehicle as the Kiwi authorities have banned its use.
Coaches
Book reviews
Book reviews: Irish Buses 2012-2017 & Irish Buses in the Mid-1960s A Return Journey
Two recently published titles from Colourpoint Creative in its Irish Bus Photographers series are Irish Buses 2012-2017 by Paul Savage and Richard Newman’s Irish Buses in the Mid-1960s A Return Journey. Paul’s book is priced […]
Coaches
On the trail of the Loch Ness Monster and Fairy Pools
Timberbush Tours CEO Steve Spalding speaks to Richard Walter about the successes of a company which started modestly two decades ago with one 16-seater coach and, by 2018, was operating an award-winning fleet of 24 […]
Coaches
Reinventing Maynes
Kevin Mayne, Operations Director at Maynes Coaches, has been involved with the family firm since the age of eight. Angela Youngman caught up with him to learn about Maynes’ current strategy
Coach Driver Profile
Year in the life
Alan Payling speaks to a one-vehicle family coach operator to find out what they got up to in 2018 and see where they are going in 2019 – and discovers that one member of the […]
Coaches
Coachbuilding the future
South East Coachworks has grown and diversified hugely since it was started in 2003, spawning a number of subsidiary companies. But, as Director Chris Bichard explained to Peter Jackson, it hasn’t lost sight of its […]
Catering for Coaches
The Cistern Chapel: Crossness Pumping Station
In an occasional feature, Alan Payling looks at some very different and unusual ideas that coach and tour operators are offering their passengers to get bums on seats – in more ways than one
Catering for Coaches
Blackpool: See the light
Blackpool realises the importance of coaches to its local economy and has implemented a number of measures to bolster its offering to visiting coach parties. Angela Youngman investigates what the seaside town has to offer
Buses
Never missing a beat
Despite a number of setbacks in the last decade, Chiltern Travel is still going strong. Trevor and Joel Boorman tell James Day the full story
Catering for Coaches
Salisbury: Explore and discover
Angela Youngman takes a trip to Salisbury to see what the historic city and its surrounding areas have to offer visiting coach groups
