Dealer Update
Ireland’s Harris Group challenges market with new EV minibuses and ‘proper’ midi-coaches
Ken Mann finds a feisty entrepreneurial spirit and an intriguing evolutionary history in the growth-orientated Harris Group
Features
Bus News
Gallery: CPT Ride & Drive returns for sixth year
The Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) held its annual Ride & Drive event at North Weald Airfield last Friday, attracting a strong line-up of the latest and greatest machinery. Peter Jackson was there
Features
Harrogate’s electrifying leap forward
Transdev project wins Government backing to create Britain’s first low emission bus town. John Gelson reports
Catering for Coaches
Is everything in your brochure coming up roses?
Alan Payling asks whether including more garden visits in coach holiday itineraries to the west country could attract some welcome business, given the popularity of gardening amongst one of the coach holiday trade’s major target […]
Features
Electric era beckons
David Cutts is Operations Director of Go-Ahead London and has overall responsibility for Go-Ahead Singapore. With a combined fleet of nearly 3,000 buses and approximately 8,500 staff, including the multi-award winning Waterloo electric bus garage […]
Features
More problems for heritage operators
A well-known operator of heritage vehicles has identified problems he says are having a major impact on the sector. Retired doctor Chris Dobbing operates immaculate AEC Routemasters at Peterborough, Cambridgeshire-based A1bus.co.uk. Several factors were having […]
Features
Heritage vehicles signal new era
Two recently acquired heritage vehicles are bringing in new business from different sectors of the industry for a Northamptonshire operator. Rushden-based Diamond Coaches has acquired 1998 Northern Counties-bodied Volvo Olympian open topper R738XRV and just […]
Features
Last trek for Jurassic Mule?
Nick Larkin has been talking to Jurassic Mule proprietor Derek Gawn about what’s happening with his operation this summer and his plans going forward Classic buses will once again be operating the summer Jurassic […]
Features
40th Anniversary – Reader spotlight, part 3
With CBW turning 40 this year, we decided to put the spotlight on our readers – individuals and businesses alike – to find out how the industry has changed in the four decades we’ve been […]
Face-to-Face Interviews
Only the best will do
Jeff Counsell, Managing Director of Trent Barton, speaks to James Day about the acclaimed operator’s success with rapid, low stop services and uncompromisingly high-specification buses
