MAN coach • An MAN-built coach will be launched in
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competition with the Mercedes-Benz 0404 on the Continent in the middle of November.
Dynamic president Bill Cottham, chairman and managing director of Leeds-based Yorkshire Rider, has replaced Graham Smith as Bus & Coach Council president. The BCC says Cottham will be "dynamic" in his role.
Express flotation • Britain's largest coach operator, National Express, has announced plans for a stock market flotation which will value the company at between £.50m and £90m.
Belt up ▪ Germany's Transport
Minister Guenther Krause wants all coach passengers to be forced to wear seat belts on coaches.
Chunnel shuttle • Eurotunnel says coach operators will be able to view the first coach shuttle in the first quarter of the next year.
Stuart Barr ▪ Stuart Barr, managing
director of Barr Wallace Arnold Trust, has died. He spent the past 35 years as director of the company which owns Wallace Arnold.
Greek order • Volvo Bus has won an order to supply 72 single-deck citybuses to the Urban Transport Organisation of Thessaloniki in Greece. It has asked for 12 two-axled Volvo BlOMs and 60 articulated versions of the mid-engined chassis.
All change • Stagecoach will stop operating its Aberdeen to London overnight rail service, which offers passengers seats in carriages leased from British Rail, next month. But Stagecoach will continue offering "a rail service through a new deal with Inter City.