Smoke, Eat And Drink • West Midlands Travel Has Banned

smoking, eating and drinking on its singledeck buses --nearly 400 vehicles in all. The company claims a similar ban imposed on 150 new Lynxes last summer has been well received......

Night Sponsors • West Yorkshire Passenger Transport...

are hoping to expand commercial sponsorship of some services, popular at Christmas and New Year, to its late-night Nightrider routes.......

Shearings Grows In The South East

• Wigan-based Shearings, Britain's largest coach operator, is expanding its operations to Kent with the takeover of Tunbridge Wells operator Eagle Coaches. Shearings intends to......

Uk Tops For Volvo

• The UK was Volvo's largest bus market in 1989, with 1,700 registrations, nudging Brazil off the top spot. Volvo Bus Corporation increased its market share in Western Europe by......

Put Buses First' Call

• Pressure is mounting on the government to take the bus seriously as an efficient means of easing urban transport problems. The past week has seen major transport......

H&d Goes Shopping For Buses

• New buses costing over 600,000 were introduced this week by AJS subsidiary Harrogate & District, together with a package of improved services. Thirteen new buses include four......

Lynx Cost Savings

• Wakefield-based Caldaire Holdings is taking delivery of a further 30 Leyland Lynx singledeckers for its West Riding and Yorkshire Woollen subsidiaries, The purchase makes CH......