Devon buyout Iceland's capital promotes
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its declining bus service
MINIBUS conversion company Devon Conversions of Exeter has been rescued by 11. SLICCestifili management buyout.
Production at its Exeter plant restarted last month for the first time since the company went into liquidation in No The buy-out was led by foriner managing director George Rosevear and former sales director Gareth Haylett. Rosevear is now managing director of the newly formed company.
PUBLIC transport in Europe's most westerly capital city — Reykjavik — is this month launching its first-ever publicity campaign to stop a continuing decline in passenger figures.
The city has the highest car ownership in Europe and, faced with an inflation rate currently at 31 per cent, operates a 73-vehicle bus fleet, some of which date back to the change-over to
driving on the right in 1968.
Now 20 Scania CN112 buses have been ordered and the first three have been put in service to coincide with the public relations exercise.
They are the first Scanias to go into the Reykjavik fleet although the make is prominent among the Icelandic longdistance fleets operated under sonic of the most arduous road and climatic conditions in Europe.