Volvo: Order Received for 126 Nova Buses to Vancouver.STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Volvo Buses' subsidiary Nova Bus Nova Bus is a bus manufacturing company based in Saint-Eustache, Quebec, Canada. The company is now owned by Prevost Car, which is a division of Volvo Buses. Nova Bus was created by a reorganization of the transit bus division of MCI in 1993, and continued the production of has received an order for 126 city buses to TransLink, in Vancouver, Canada. The order is valued at USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 50.2 M, with delivery during 2007. TransLink is the authority responsible for public transportation in the Greater Vancouver area. Seventy-five of the new buses will replace older buses that have been in traffic since the beginning of the 1990s, while the remainder are an addition to the bus fleet. This is a breaktrough for Nova Bus in Vancouver since this is the first big order from TransLink. The new buses are the Nova LFS LFS Linux from Scratch LFS Labour Force Survey (UK) LFS Live for Speed (computer racing simulation) LFS London Film School LFS Log-Structured File System (Unix, BSD) model, a 12.2-meter-long low-entry bus. The buses are equipped with the latest generation diesel engines that use ultra-low-sulfur fuel with a particulate par·tic·u·late adj. Of or occurring in the form of fine particles. n. A particulate substance. particulate composed of separate particles. exhaust trap. The impact on net air quality was one of the reasons that TransLink chose the Nova LFS. Lifecycle cost was another. "We had an opportunity to test a Nova Bus in 2005, and we were as impressed with the look and ride as we were with its performance," says Malcolm Brodie, Chairman of the TransLink Board of Directors. Nova Bus is a division of Prevost Car Prevost Car is a Quebec, Canada-based manufacturer of touring coaches and bus shells for high-end motorhomes and specialty conversions. The company now owns Nova Bus and in turn is owned by Volvo Bus Corporation. Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Volvo Bus Corporation. Nova Bus is one of the largest manufacturers of city and intercity buses in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The company has two plants in Canada. October 9, 2006 Volvo Bus Corporation is the world's second-largest manufacturer of large buses and coaches. The range comprises complete vehicles, chassis, bus bodies, transport system solutions for metropolitan traffic, leasing, financing and service contract maintenance. Volvo Bus Corporation is part of the Volvo Group, one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks, buses and construction equipment, drive systems for marine and industrial applications, aerospace components and services. The Group also provides complete solutions for financing and service. This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net |
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