Vest Buss

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Vest Buss Gruppen AS
Private
Industry Automotive
Founded1965
Headquarters Stryn, Norway
Areas served
 Norway, Sweden, Finland
Key people
Karl Anders Galfvensjö (CEO)
Per Dag Nedreberg (Chair)
Products Buses and coaches
Website www.vest.no

Vest Buss is a former Norwegian bus and coach bodywork manufacturer, and is currently the official distributor for Iveco Bus in Norway and Sweden.

Bus Large road vehicle for transporting people

A bus is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers. Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers. The most common type of bus is the single-deck rigid bus, with larger loads carried by double-decker and articulated buses, and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses; coaches are used for longer-distance services. Many types of buses, such as city transit buses and inter-city coaches, charge a fare. Other types, such as elementary or secondary school buses or shuttle buses within a post-secondary education campus do not charge a fare. In many jurisdictions, bus drivers require a special licence above and beyond a regular driver's licence.

Iveco Bus is a bus manufacturer, with headquarters in Lyon, that belongs to the industrial group CNH Global through its subsidiary Iveco, based in Turin (Italy). Iveco-bus is now only a brand division of IVECO which is a company incorporated under Italian law and listed on Borsa Italiana.

The company was founded in Stryn in 1965 as Vest Karosseri AS, building their first bus bodywork in 1967. In 2002 the company was renamed Vest-Busscar AS, after Brazilian bus manufacturer Busscar acquired a 35 % share. By 2006 Busscar had sold out and it was renamed Vest Buss AS. In 2009 they became the official distributor for Irisbus in Norway and Sweden. In 2010 it was decided to close down the production of their own bodywork in early 2011, which was briefly continued by Vidre AS.

Stryn Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

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Busscar Ônibus S.A. was a Brazilian bus manufacturer that was building coaches, trolleybuses, charter and tour buses, founded on 17 September 1946. The company was based in Joinville in the south of Brazil, where it was industrial premises that cover 1,000,000 m2 (11,000,000 sq ft), including a building of 84,000 m2 (900,000 sq ft) The Busscar Ônibus S.A. was in defunct on 27 September 2012. The fleet of buses which were shipped to Barbados were the 45 Mercedes-Benz (OH1821) Busscar Urbanuss buses, along with the air-conditioned buses in November, 1999, but they would have added a fleet of the new 95 Mercedes-Benz (OH1821) Busscar Urbanuss 1 buses, along with the air-conditioned buses in November, 2004 and the 100 Mercedes-Benz (OH1821) Busscar Urbanuss 2 buses and also the 100 Mercedes-Benz (OH1821) Busscar Urbanuss Pluss buses, along with the air-conditioned buses in November, 2005.

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