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A Coventry travel firm is staying orange at the same time as going green

Harry Shaw City Cruiser, the Binley-based coach operator, has just undertaken a major investment in a new vehicle to add to its fleet.

The new coach is one of the most environmentally friendly on the market as it features a Scania Euro 4 engine.

Every other Harry Shaw coach, which are famous across the city for their orange livery, is fitted with a Euro 3 engine which up to now has been one of the most ‘green’.

But the Euro 4 standard engine has less emissions and is going to be the new benchmark for vehicles in the future.

Robert Shaw, a director of Harry Shaw City Cruiser, said: “We have always been committed to using the most efficient, environmentally friendly vehicles.

“Each of our coaches has always been the ‘greenest’ of its time but we are all more conscious now than ever of the importance of being kind to the environment and that is something we are committed to.

“Someone even suggested that we should paint this coach green but I think we will stick to the traditional orange on this occasion!”

The new coach will become part the company’s fleet which takes holidaymakers from across Coventry and Warwickshire to a variety of destinations across Europe.

Harry Shaw City Cruiser also operates day and weekend trips across the UK.

Robert added: “It is absolutely vital that we move with the times and that has what has helped to maintain the business over the past five decades.

“We hope to make a series of announcements in 2007 that will show further advances to Harry Shaw City Cruiser.”