Wrights Reaps Rewards

• Wrights of Wrexham is capitalising on the Crosville Wales driver dispute which ended last month with the sacking of 120 drivers. Wrights is currently the biggest independent......

Devon Conversions Predicts A Boom

• Minibus specialist Devon Conversions is forecasting that its profits will more than double this year after concentrating on its ambulance and welfare vehicles. Ambulance sales......

Western Scottish Is On The Market

• The Scottish Bus Group's largest subsidiary, Western Scottish, went up for sale last week. It is the eighth SBG company to be privatised. The Kilmarnock-based company operates......

Shearings Builds Up

• Shearings has taken on five Van Hool T815 integrals as part of its largest order of new vehicles to date. They will be used for Continental touring and are fitted with Cummins......

Sale Imminent

• The sale of Purfleetbased Ensign Bus now looks imminent following the collapse of negotiations with a US venture capital group last month (CM 16-22 August),......

Sheffield Supertram

• The Government is expected to announce whether it will back Sheffield's 2230m "Supertram" project this week.......

Ministerial Meeting

• Transport Minister Roger Freeman plans to meet with the Association of Transport Co-ordinating Officers in the new year to discuss integrating public, health and social......

Share Increases

• Rider Group shares are now worth 28p, compared with 5p when the company was first privatised in October 1988.......

Tayside Bid

IN An employee/ management buyout bid will be put forward for Tayside Buses in February, which could lead to the company being sold by Tayside Regional Council before the end of......

Fares Please

• An average of 17 seats are occupied on a London bus, according to this month's Labour Party News.......

Men Recruited For Women's Service

• Male drivers have had to be taken on for an experimental women-only minibus operation in Bradford following a lack of response from females drivers (CM 23-29 November 1989).......