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• Peugeot-Talbot, the former and much truncated Chrysler UK company, plans to break into the UK market for minibuses and is to begin production of vans and minibuses at Stoke-on-Trent next year. Initial production of two hundred 16 to 20-seat vehicles a year is planned to increased to an annual 500 buses with some speed. The Guardian, June 27.
▪ Freight Rover has set up a minibus fleet
sales department to cope with the booming small bus market ahead of bus deregulation in the autumn. Specialist coachwork firms will be able to build their own 16-20 seater bus bodies on to a new chassis. Daily Post, June 19.
E Nine thousand public transport jobs could disappear this year with the privatisation of the National Bus Company and the deregulation of services, according to the transport workers' union. The Guardian, June 23,