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New buses Lloyds Coaches is investing in – E400 double and E200 single deck
Stagecoach regional shake up sees two MDs promoted
Industry share prices at the close of the Stock Exchange on Monday, August 22. A less positive week compared to last, with no rises in price, while Rotala and Siemens remained the same. Figures obtained from www.iii.co.uk
Stagecoach has appointed two new managing directors for regional companies in its UK bus division, following a structural change in its North-West of England region. The former Stagecoach North West operations will now form part of two new regional companies: Cumbria and North Lancashire, and Merseyside and South Lancashire. Elisabeth Tasker, operations director with Stagecoach Manchester, will become MD of Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire from September 1. She will have responsibility for depots in Liverpool, Preston and Chorley. Nigel Winter has been promoted from operations director for Stagecoach North East, to MD of Stagecoach Cumbria and North Lancashire, with responsibility for the Carlisle, West Cumbria, Kendal, Barrow and Lancaster depots. He will also start the role in September. The group also confirmed that: Paul Southgate, formerly managing director Stagecoach North West, will become commercial manager of Stagecoach UK Bus; Les Burton, operations director, Stagecoach Merseyside, will become operations director at Stagecoach Merseyside and South Lancashire and; Paul Lee will continue as engineering director for both of the Stagecoach companies in the North West. Stagecoach will now be seeking applications for the following three positions: Operations director, Stagecoach Manchester, covering depots at Hyde Road, Sharston, Stockport and Ashton; Operations director, Stagecoach North East, with responsibility for depots at Walkergate, Slatyford, South Shields, Sunderland, Stockton and Hartlepool; and Operations director, Stagecoach Cumbria and North Lancashire, covering the Carlisle, West Cumbria, Kendal, Barrow and Lancaster depots.
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Wi-Fi has recently been launched onto some Nottingham City Transportoperated double deckers as part of The Capital One, Click Card national campaign. Ratcliffe Fernley Media provided three double decker wraps in the centre of Nottingham, which houses Capital One’s head offices, and the newly dressed buses were equipped with Wi-Fi, enabling free internet access for all passengers via Capital One’s home page where details of their cards were featured and sign-up was accessible. Inside, all the Interior Headliner posters notified people of the service offered. “This is a great example of how bus advertising can be used to generate an effective and valuable delivery of a campaign and brand message to a large audience in a non-invasive manner, a key component in an overall strategy for Capital One,” said Lisa Ratcliffe, Ratcliffe Fernley media’s managing director.
London United reaches a million hybrid miles London United has said its hybrid vehicles have clocked one million miles. RATP-owned London United operate a fleet of 27 hybrid buses built by Alexander Dennis which use BAE HybriDrive hybrid electric propulsion systems, comprising of five single and 22 double deck vehicles.
The BAE Systems-powered ADL E400 Hybrids have saved more than 450 tonnes of CO2 since the first entered service in 2008
Since the first of these vehicles entered service in late 2008 the operator said it has saved over 44,000 gallons of diesel and prevented the release of more than 450 tonnes of CO2. London United engineering director Les Birchley said: “London United is proud to be the first operator in London to achieve the milestone of one million hybrid miles. Our fleet of hybrid buses continue to perform well, and have proved their worth in terms of achieving both superior fuel savings and optimum reliability. Our passengers and drivers love them.” Rob Lindsay, BAE Systems, director of Transport Systems (UK and Europe) commented: “We firmly believe hybrid is the right technology for UK transit bus, and with HybriDrive Series we have a proven, robust system. Seeing London United place a repeat order for HybriDrive Series-powered vehicles and then reach a million miles of service with them is a fantastic achievement.”
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