Sale of Cambus sparks a pre Christmas rush
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• Pegaso has launched a luxury version of its Midicar 5317 coach, designed especially for tourist applications.
The 5317C is built on a specially-developed self-supporting frame, which gives the medium-sized vehicle good luggage capacity and a low platform height for easy access.
A new turbocharged 127kW (170hp) engine powers the vehicle through a ZF sixspeed synchronised gearbox. • Cambus this week became the sixth National Bus Company to be the subject of a management buyout, and the NBC says there could be a further five before the end of the year.
Managing director Paul Merryweather, 41, has led the buyout at Cambus.
He heads a team including five company directors.
The newly-privatised company operates in Cambridgeshire, parts of Lincolnshire, Northants and Suffolk, with a fleet of 269 buses including minibus fleets which are based in Cambridge and Peterborough.
Cambus has operated since September 1984, when it was separated from the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company.
An NBC spokesman told Commercial Motor that a further four or five purchases of NBC subsidiaries are expected.
These include City of Oxford Motor Services, which is the subject of a contested buyout between the existing management and Stagecoach.