Fsv Dormobile In Carlyle Talks

• FSV Dormobile is on the brink of buying part of the Carlyle Group. The Folkestone-based minibus and ambulance specialist is negotiating with liquidator Ernst & Young over the......

Aluminium Body For Alliance City

• United Bus subsidiary DAB Silkeborg (Denmark) is building an aluminium body on to the lowfloor Alliance City underframe, introduced by its sister company Den Oudsten two years......

Plaxton Waits For Dublin Bus Deal

• Plaxton is ready to build its Verde body on to the Daf SB220 underframe, if an order for up to 40 from one operator is signed. Dublin Bus expects to place the order by the end......

Bus Barriers

• Blinkered politicians from other EC countries are keener to protect their own coach operators than allow competition from abroad, according to Transport Secretary Malcolm......

Tracer Debut • Renault Is Considering Bringing Its 12m...

Tracer coach to Britain next year for around £80,000 (CM 27 June-3 July).......

Ivy Wilts

• Ivy Coaches • (Linthwaite), the Huddersfield-based operator of 15 coaches, went into receivership last Wednesday, with John Gordon, Walton & Company.......

Hughes Coup

• Cleckheaton-based Hughes Daf has sold 10 Ikarus service buses to London Coaches for the new year.......

Dailybus Is In Demand

• Iveco Ford's new 59.12 DailyBus chassis cowl is being used for four body designs in the next few weeks (CM 24-30Oct). Folkestone-based FSV Dormobile, Rochdale-based Mellor......