BUSMAKERS NEWS WORLDWIDE

* South Africa - Bus supplier punts low-entry bus rapid-transport alternative

Garden View,South Africa -Creamer Media's Engineering News, by Irma Venter -11 Apr 08: -- Bus manufacturer MAN Truck & Bus South Africa will, in particular, target those cities aiming to introduce kerbside, low-entry bus rapid transport (BRT) systems ahead of the 2010 Soccer World Cup... MAN Truck & Bus, business development management board member Ray Karshagen says the company does not yet have a suitable high-floor bus available for those cities targeting BRT systems where passengers will enter and exit the buses from elevated platforms... (Picture by: IRMA - MANUFACTURING MILESTONE MAN in March produced its 2 500th bus at its Olifantsfontein plant)



* USA - Chinese Cos To Buy 207 Hybrid Power Systems For Buses

Cleveland,OH,USA -Dow Jones Newswires/CNNMoney, by Adam Edelman -April 9, 2008: -- Manufacturer Eaton Corp. (ETN) said China's Guangzhou Armada Development Corp. and Guangzhou Yiqi Bus Co Ltd. agreed to buy 207 diesel-electric hybrid power systems for new buses in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou... The deal adds to the initial purchase of 30 Eaton hybrid-powered buses announced in January as part of the U.S. Commerce Department's Clean Energy trade mission to China... The buses will be put into passenger service throughout the year, Cleveland- based Eaton said...