The UK’s market-leading ambulance conversion specialist, VCS, will now be able to apply its expertise to new areas of the emergency services sector as it absorbs CM Specialist Vehicles into its brand. The move allows VCS, which is acknowledged in the ambulance industry for its...
Woodall Nicholson, the manufacturing group behind a growing portfolio of specialist vehicle design and manufacturing brands in the UK, has appointed Mark Clissett as Divisional Managing Director of its Bus Division, including Mellor in Rochdale and Treka Bus in Brighouse. Mark succeeds John Randerson who takes...
The UK’s leading ‘size-appropriate’ bus manufacturer, Mellor*, is to supply a full-electric, emissions-free Orion E bus for Nottingham City Council’s Highways England-funded Electric Van Experience (EVE) Project. The council says it has earmarked the Orion E for use on its passenger transport routes following the...
Woodall Nicholson, the specialist vehicle design & manufacturing group behind some of the UK’s leading specialist vehicle brands including Coleman Milne, Mellor, Treka and VCS, has created a fourth division to its group portfolio. The new technology division provides a dedicated innovation and technical platform...
Woodall Nicholson's ambulance conversion specialist, VCS, is on track to deliver the country's first hydrogen fuel cell ambulance, which is set to be on London's streets by Autumn 2021. The prototype zero emissions ambulance is the product of the ZERRO (Zero Emission Rapid Response Operations ambulance)...
Rochdale MBC has updated its bus fleet with the addition of seven new *Mellor Strata HF buses. The ‘size-appropriate’ accessible buses are already in service transporting school children with additional needs to and from schools in the local area. Each Strata HF has the capacity for...
OTS Minibus & Coach Hire in Falmouth has taken delivery of five new low-floor Mellor Strata Ultra buses. Mellor, part of the Woodall Nicholson Group, says the Strata Ultra’s impressive specification offers an ‘operationally efficient’ bus and a persuasive business proposition for the Falmouth-based operator. The...
The all-electric ambulance, launched recently by VCS*, is providing a boost to Britain's green economy as well as creating new jobs and prosperity locally in the Bradford area. The Electric Dual Crewed Ambulance (E-DCA) is the UK’s first electric ambulance and the first zero emissions ambulance...
‘Orion Evolution’ is the new low-mass 27-passenger bus from Mellor. Rochdale-based Mellor, part of the Woodall Nicholson Group, is extending its bus product range with the introduction of its new Orion Evolution – a 5.5-tonne, 27-passenger bus offering high-specification low-cost appeal to a wide range of...
VCS, part of the Woodall Nicholson group, has today launched the country’s first all-electric ambulance to be used in front-line service. The Electric Dual Crewed Ambulance (E-DCA) is the UK’s first electric ambulance and the first zero emissions ambulance to be used on UK roads. Designed, developed...