Mc Action Group Set Up

1 Dissatisfied Metro Cammell Veymann customers are join1g forces to spur the manufacurer to improve its spare arts and warranty service. The predominantly Metroridr user group,......

Seaside Scanias

• Brighton & Hove Bus ;ompany has taken delivery of 0 East Lancs-bodied Scania 13DRB double-deck buses, .upplied through Stuart Johnon of Worksop. They join 14 icanias already......

Iolunteer Help

I The fee for registering or arying a non-subsidised corniunity bus service is to be cut . om 230 and .227 to a flat fee I 210, says Public Transport linister Michael Portillo.......

Oft Removes Joint Limits

• The Office of Fair Trading has removed restrictions on 31 of the joint operating agreements it challenged late last year. It had written to 66 companies about 115 agreements......

Birthday Buses

• VL Bus & Coach has delivered three Alexanderbodied Volvo Citybuses to Northampton Transport, with high-backed seating for 82 passengers. They all carry names to link with the......

Making Minis • Robbie Hood Has Linkedup With Allan Lowden

and Mike Eatough, to form a Southampton-based minibus manufacturing company, LHE. The former boss of Robin Hood Vehicle Builders has a 2,000m 2 premises near the Western Docks.......

Barton Buses Jobs Are To Go

• Barton Buses has issued 71 redundancy notices to staff as a first step towards the 150 envisaged in the takeover by Wellglade, completed this month (CM 22-28 June). Barton......

Citibus Hires In

• Manchester independent operator Citibus has had to hire in buses after a vehicle examiner's checks put nearly a third of the company's 40strong fleet off the road.......

• London-based Scancoaches Has Taken Delivery Of Seven...

Scania K113CRB coaches, five with 242kW (325hp) engines and two with 233kW (313hp) units. Two of the higher-powered coaches are equipped for full catering to launch Scancoaches'......