Welcome to Courtney Coaches
Courtney Coaches Limited is a family owned business which has been providing quality transportation since 1973. We believe that our well established company is supported by our expertise, reliability & professional drivers.
Courtney Coaches remains a family run concern today; Bill Courtney is the original founder and daughters Hayley and Belinda have duly followed their father into the company and were appointed Company Directors in June 2009. The company has grown to a strong fleet of 40 vehicles, eighty employees and focuses on supplying buses for local councils and corporate sites across three counties operating approx 37 contracts.
The vision for the company is to be the first 100% pure plant oil powered bus company in the UK. The drive behind this is a desire to be the leader in corporate social responsibility in this business sector as well as first mover advantage: whilst the competition continue to offer fossil fuel powered vehicles, Courtney Coaches are able to offer vehicles with an 80% lower carbon footprint, powered for sustainable sourced, pure plant oil.
Latest News
Promotion of Green Travel for Police Officers
Police officers either in uniform or on production of a warrant card receive free travel on all of our services. Any staff member wishing to purchase monthly / quarterly tickets will receive a discount of 10%.
Courtney buys Regenatec
After seven years testing, trialing, and proving the environmental benefits of Pure Plant Oil (PPO), Bracknell-based operator Bill Courtney-Smith is so impressed that he has taken a half share in the company that developed a system to make the fuel viable in coaches and buses.
Mr Courtney-Smith, founder of Courtney Coaches, introduced PPO in 2002 because of its potential environmental benefits. Courtney Coaches now runs its entire fleet on the fuel and has demonstrated 80% saving in CO2 emissions.
Operational benefits include lmpg fuel savings and reduced carbon build-up in the engines, although the key advantage is commercial, according to Mr Courtney-Smith who has won valuable contracts with business parks and local authorities on the back of proven reduction in the vehicle's carbon footprint.
However, Regenatec, the Abingdon, Oxfordshire-based company that conducted the essential research and development to ensure PPO and the engine conversions not only worked, but made the proposition viable had effectively lain dormant since the end of 2008 because it lacked the resources to take it to the wider market.
Aware of the hiatus, and anxious to protect his own interests, while convinced of the commercial potential, Mr Courtney-Smith teamed up with Kevin Thomas to acquire Regenatec.
To take the resurrected business to the next stage, the new owners have targeted logistical and marketing needs that will reassure other operators of consistent supply in terms of quality, price and quantity.
In order for vehicles to operate on PPO, engines require conversion and the company already has experience of Cummins, Mercedes-Benz, MAN and Scania.
Because diesel is used to start the engine, split or dual tanks are fitted. An AA warranty is now included in the price, which is around £10,000, while the preferred route of conversion is on the production line and this is being actively pursued with bus builder, Optare.
Courtney Coaches are Finalists in the "Energy Saving Trust Fleet
Hero Awards 2006" in association with The Observer and Fleet News.