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In November 1992, West Midlands Travel was ordered to have its entire fleet of over 1,800 buses given MOT tests by July 1993 after 108 fleet vehicles were found by the Vehicle Inspectorate to be poorly maintained, with faults including faulty brakes, broken lights and bell pushes, oil leaks, and damaged passenger seating. In an examination of ...
National Express Coventry began taking delivery of an order of 130 Enviro400EVs in late 2022 as part of a plan for Coventry to have the first all-electric bus fleet in a UK city, [25] with the completion of the order in September 2023 coverting the National Express Coventry fleet to 80% zero-emission vehicles. [26]
Coach services were deregulated under the Transport Act 1980, and buses by the Transport Act 1985. In March 1988 National Express was privatised in a management buyout. [6] In July 1989, the company bought ATL Holdings [7] (with operations in Sheffield) and a 50% share in Yelloway Trathen, which was renamed Trathens Travel Services. [8] [9]
A passenger-carrying driverless bus service named CAVForth commenced operations on 15 May 2023 using a fleet of five Enviro200AVs built to the same specifications as the Manchester trial vehicle on a 14 miles (23 km) Stagecoach East Scotland park-and-ride route across the Forth Road Bridge, from the north bank of the Forth to Edinburgh Park ...
The Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC (sold as the Alexander Dennis Enviro400) is a low-floor double-decker bus produced by the British bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis since 2014, replacing the Alexander Dennis Enviro400. The Enviro400 MMC is produced at Alexander Dennis' Falkirk and Scarborough factories in the United Kingdom.
A Kowloon Motor Bus Enviro400 in Mong Kok, Hong Kong New World First Bus Enviro400 with facelift Enviro400 MMC bodywork Compared to the more predominant Alexander Dennis Enviro500 , a small number of air-conditioned Enviro400s were exported to bus operators in Hong Kong following demonstration trials with the operators.
Route 50 was introduced by Birmingham City Transport between the City Centre and Maypole in October 1949 to replace a withdrawn tram route. [1] It was supplemented by route 49 which ran as far as Moseley or Kings Heath (via Leopold Street rather than Bradford Street) and route 48 which ran Gooch Street, Clevedon Road and Salisbury Road to Moseley then Alcester Road to the Maypole.
List of buses: 0–9 Bus Image Type Manufacturer Year Notes Country 021: Single deck Jelcz: 1967 to 1979 Articulated Poland 043: Single deck Jelcz: 1959 to 1986 Poland 080: Single deck Jelcz: 1978 to 1984 Poland 1 CB: Single deck Berliet: 1911 France 2.0: Single deck Ebusco: 2014 Electric Netherlands 2.1: Single deck Ebusco: 2017 Electric ...