'Crucial' work for LRT Two Glasgow
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COMMERCIAL service development is "crucial to the futureof London Buses, its chairman and managing director John Telford Beasley said last week at the launch of the joint London Buses/West Midlands PTE London Liner coach service.
London Buses will initially operate three new Dal MB Duple Caribbean-bodied coaches on the service. They are leased from Dal dealer Stanley Hughes.
The coaches, together with its solitary Berkhof-bodied Dal, will operate from its new commercial operations base at the former Battersea bus garage in South London. Its fleet of sightseeing buses will also run from Battersea.
Further London Liner style operations are expected to be introduced in the near future including services to South Coast resorts.
London Buses is expected to expand its coach fleet and has ordered MCW Metroliner double-deck coaches for the Birmingham service.
Its West Midlands counterpart on the service has bought two Bova Futura HID coaches. They arc operated on behalf of the PTL by its coaching subsidiary, Central Coachways of Walsall. It, too, has ordered Metroliner double-deckers for the service.
Both operators are using safety as a selling feature.
• London Buses plans to fit driver shields in all 3,000 of its driver-only buses by midJune.
The move is designed to protect London's bus drivers from attacks from passengers.
A new report from the Transport and General Workers' Union shows that such attacks almost doubled in the last year, to 300 incidents.
Above: A WMPTE Bova (lift) and a London Dql: Below: "I lie Birmingham Post advertiement for London Liner.