Coaches
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The Yutong TC9 is one of Pelican Bus and Coach’s success stories, but as Richard Sharman found out in a test drive just prior to the Covid-19 lockdown measures beginning, improvements have been made to […]
Test Drive
Features
Orion goes electric
The Mellor Orion has long been popular among community transport groups, and now the Orion E variant has arrived – offering a zero-emission option. Richard Sharman visited the very first operator of the Orion E, […]
Coaches
The UK’s first electric coach driven
The very first fully-electric coach in the UK has arrived, the Yutong TCe12. Richard Sharman visited Pelican Bus and Coach to go over this important new coach with a fine-tooth comb and put it through […]
Features
DAF-based Turas driven
Operators have never had so much choice in the midi-coach sector, and it is a buyers’ market at the moment. One key decision that you have to consider before anything else is whether to go […]
Features
Treka Bus moves into a new market with the Everyday
Treka Bus has long been associated with the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter-based Mobility+ product, which has recently evolved with the restyle of the Sprinter. But out of the depths of the Brighouse factory has arisen a new […]
Coaches
A stately tourer
The all-new Volvo 9900 integral attracted significant attention when it appeared at Euro Bus Expo in October last year. Clearly proud of the latest member of its ‘family,’ Volvo is positioning the 9900 as a […]
Features
Test Drive Archive: Freight Rover Sherpa 350
In the first of a series of articles for the CBW website, Peter Jackson digs out past issues of the magazine to revisit some classic vehicles.
Coaches
Bespoke Beulas
Sitting squarely in the mid-market, the Beulas Cygnus has become a firm favourite with many operators. The attractive combination of a bespoke specification and the reliability of its DAF engine is prompting operators to take […]
Buses
Biogas Brilliance
The Enviro400CBG City is the first Euro VI biogas-fuelled double-decker bus in the world, and has been developed jointly between Scania and Alexander Dennis. Richard Sharman takes a closer look at the technology and how […]
Coaches
Yutong’s European Vision
It is all going very well at Castleford-based Pelican Bus and Coach, with 400 Yutong vehicles sold in the UK and Ireland in four years. The decision has now been made to take the UK […]
