A CENTURY OF SCANIA BUSES AND COACHES
Published at 29.04.2011 in Company news, Heritage
In 1911 the newly merged Scania-Vabis delivered the first Swedish-built engine-powered omnibus, the ‘Nordmark bus’. Its chain-driven chassis was built by Scania in Malmö, in southern Sweden, equipped with an engine and body from Vabis in Södertälje.
SIXTY YEARS OF SETRA
Published at 03.02.2011 in Company news, Heritage
Setra Buses, Daimler's Ulm-based bus brand, will be celebrating this year the brand's 60th anniversary and the beginning of bus production in Ulm 100 years ago. The first Setra bus ever produced by Kässbohrer dates from 1951, bearing the chassis number -001. This vehicle was presented to bus companies for the first time at the Frankfurt International Motor Show in 1951.
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.
