All Change At Southdown

• Transit Holdings boss Harry Blundred plans to convert the Southdown Portsmouth fleet to minibuses after he takes over the division from Stagecoach on 20 January. The deal......

Rossendale Takes Over Ellen Smith

• Municipal bus operator Rossendale Transport is expanding its leisure activities with the takeover of Rochdalebased family firm Ellen Smith Tours. The 90-year-old tours company......

Nc Bodies For Lynx Ii

• Northern Counties of Wigan has confirmed that it will be bodying Leyland Bus's Lynx II underframe with its new allaluminium single-deck body. The first example will debut at......

Tipped For Sale

• Nottinghamshire-based independent South Notts of Gotham is tipped for sale following its first losses of .232,000 last year. It operates 28 buses, mostly double-deckers, and......

Javelin Replacements • This Is One Of 10 Dennis Javelins

with Plaxton's Derwent bodies which have been taken on as replacement vehicles at Norfolkbased Eastern Counties Omnibus Company. Brighton buses • A park-and-ride scheme could......