IN BRIEF
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• Alder Valley North has changed its name, and the livery of its vehicles. The company now becomes the Berks Bucks Bus Company and gains a new emblem of a flying bee, made up of two capital Bs, which appear with The Bee Line' on all its single and double deckers which are now yellow, with grey panels.
Coaches, however, will continue to run with the Londonlink trade name, and the familiar red, white and black livery.
• Moseley Group (PSV) of Loughborough has acquired coach businesses of Leisure Master in Dunstable and Loughborough for more than 21 million. They now trade as Housden Caldwell Coaches (Tourmaster) of Loughborough.
• Coach operators could face fines of up to £1,000 if they fail to fit speed limiters to their coaches, Transport Minister Peter Bottomley announced this week.
The Department of Transport is planning to amend the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations to make the fitting of speed limiters compulsory, he told MPs in a Commons reply.
The maximum penalty for breaching the regulations is currently £1,000, he says.
• Kingston-upon-Hull is operating a new minibus service, called Royale, based on 15 new Iveco Ford City Nippy buses. The 25-seaters have bodywork by Robin Hood built onto an Iveco Turbo Daily chassis.