spectacular cover is what would have greeted coach operators when issue 1 of Coachmart appeared on
their doorsteps.
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 to Greece, Spain and Italy on camping holidays. In 1978 he started the first ever weekly magazine specifically for the coaching industry which had hitherto had to rely on specific monthly titles or small sections within weekly truck-dominated publications.
As well as the magazine, he also developed the associated Ryland Publishing business, including Queenprint, which was well known to many coach operators for the production of their tour programme brochures. After selling Coachmart in 1986, Terry established a vehicle hire business in Hull, later moving briefly to the Isle of Man. Finding it too claustrophobic, Terry and his wife Dorothy, who he had married in 1974, moved to France for eight years where Terry made use of his aircraft pilot’s licence. Returning to the UK, the couple bought an air taxi company at Birmingham Airport, with Dorothy also obtaining her flying certificate.
They subsequently began a service between East Midlands Airport and Belfast International (later Belfast City) airports using a 19-seater plane. Ultimately crowded out by larger players, Terry returned to the woodworking skills that his father had taught him as a child, becoming a sawmiller and establishing Ryland Forestry.
Always driven, always active he was a serial entrepreneur and had a huge positive influence on many of those he worked with. He is survived by Dorothy, daughter Karen, son in law David and grandchildren Jack and Isabella. His funeral will take place at Oakley Wood Crematorium near Warwick on Wednesday 22 June at 1600hrs.
Thank you to Stuart Jones for sharing this Obituary with Coach & Bus Week.
