EIGHTY YEARS OF MAURI BUS BODIES
Published at 15.04.2010 in Company news, Heritage
Mauri Bus System, an Italian manufacturer of specialised buses and representative of a number of various bodybuilders on the Italian market, has been achtive eighty years as a body manufacturer. The company started in 1921, when Mr. Carlo Mauri began constructing sidecars for motorcycles, customized bodywork for cars and repairing motorcars.
NEOPLAN BUS CELEBRATES ITS 75TH BIRTHDAY
Published at 10.04.2010 in Company news, Heritage
Since being founded in 1935, Neoplan has established itself at the fore of innovative technology, travel comfort and design worldwide through a large number of new and unique developments. This includes inventing the double-decker coach, leading the way in passenger-friendly low-floor technology for city buses, pioneering the high-decker construction or using unusual designs — the Starliner coach being the latest example.
NINETY YEARS OF CUMMINS ENGINE DEVELOPMENT
Published at 11.08.2009 in Components, Heritage
Though not of Cummins engines – the first applicable Cummins diesel engine was ready in 1931, but Clessie Lyle Cummins started designing and experimenting with the first prototypes in 1919, having founded the Cummins Engine Company in the year with the financial assistance of William Glanton Irvin. They both saw the commercial potential of an unproven engine technology invented two decades earlier by Rudolph Diesel.
O 3250: LONG-SERVING REGULAR IN PASSENGER TRANSPORT
Published at 22.04.2009 in International developments, Heritage
Staged in May 1949, the Technical Export Fair was to provide companies, in particular German companies, with a significant economic stimulus in the years and decades ahead. The fair witnessed the premiere of the 300 engine series in the L 3250 truck and O 3250 bus, a unit that would continue to serve in light and medium-duty trucks for almost half a century.
A CENTURY OF HYBRID BUSES
Published at 02.04.2009 in Alternatives, Heritage
Hybrid buses are almost a century old. The first ones were developed by the British vehicle manufacturer W.A. Stevens, who developed as W. A. Stevens Electrical Engineers a gasoline-electric vehicle in 1906.
