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Last Conductor
• The last bus conductor in South Wales, John Smith of Swansea, has retired. He was the only conductor to avoid the switch to driveronly buses in 1987.......
Pmt Launch
• A new AMI-bodied bus based based on a Renault chassis and designed for up to 33 seats is being developed by PMT Engineering, for introduction into the UK in the next three......
High Hopes For United Bus
• United Bus is aiming for a 15%. share of the European bus and coach market by 1994, said managing director Wolf Winer at the Autobus RAE show (CM 27 September 3 October). At......
Sbg's Bluebird Up For Sale
• Another Scottish Bus Group company has been put up for sale. Northern Scottish, the group's Aberdeen-based subsidiary, which trades as Bluebird Northern, is the sixth SI%......
Go-ahead Warning
• Go-Ahead Northern's plans to diversify could be at the expense of its existing bus services, warns the Transport and General Workers' Union. The union believes that the......
Bowing Out
• Jim Begg, managing director of Midland Bluebird, has taken early retirement after 20 years at the Falkirk-based company and 42 years in the industry. He will stay on as a......
Wallace Arnold Record Breaker
• 'Four giant Wallace Arnold of Leeds has placed its biggest order to date for new replacement coaches. It will take delivery of 50 Plaxton-bodied Volvo B1OM coaches next......