Van Hool in Africa

yanHool in Africa: a long and strong tradition Over 30 years active experience in 50 countries transporting people and goods on the public roads. <<500 CITY BUSES FOR AtGERlA» Four hundred and sixty units in operation in Algiers Capital and 40 more are at wprk in the towns of Blida, Chercheil, Larba and Kolea. Powerful and nimble, high-capacity and rapid-flow buses made for very hilly urban areas with a relatively short body and three doors, these vehicles are the result of the A NEW BATCH OF 457 UNITS FOR SNTV constant co-operation between the Van Hooi Research and Development Cen Recently the production of 457 intercity coaches has started at Koningskooikt at tre and the Algerian Technical Services. They have Fiat powering and Allison the order of the Societe Nationaie du Transport Voayageurs of Algeria. They are automatic gearboxes. Scania BR 116 chassis with Van Hool Alizee bodies. Entire shiploads of Van Hool buses, coaches and commercial vehicles leave the port of Antwerp towards Africa. A self-relying bus, coach and com mercial vehicle maker from the very beginning, VAN HOOL has developped not around a certain componentry for mula but in function of the work to do and of the components available in the host country. The VAN HOOL body is designed and made to match, suit and fit any and every well known chassis make. Lagos, Capital of Nigeria, the most numerous African nation, uses Van Hool bodied Mercedes OF 1617 buses made bv Van Hool for troDical climates. SPECIALIZED VEHICLE SERIES MADE AT SHORT NOTICE SPEEDYARE WHAT IT TAKES RHYTHM TO KEEP PACE WITH OF THE DEVELOPMENT YOUNG AFRICA ALGERIA coache coaches buses buses articulated buses semi-trailers semi-trailers know-how SENEGAL NIGERIA semi-trailers buses coaches GAMBIA commercial vehicles SUDAN buses CAMEROONS buses UGANDA buses ZAIRE commercial buses vehicles coaches commercial RWANDA vehicles buses THE VAN HOOL MATERIAL FOR AFRICA IS atliculated buses \ buses * QUICK commercial vehicles LA REUNION * STURDY coaches * RELIABLE * AND ABOVE ALL, CUSTOM MADI TOUGH VEHICLE BODIES WHICH STAY LONG IN DUTY AND ARE KNOWN ALL OVER EUROPE AS HAVING THE LONGEST ACTIVE LIFE ON THE CONTINENT. THE MAIN ATTENTION GOES TO THE BUSTLING TRAFFIC OF THE YOUNG AND OLD AFRICAN CITIES AND CAPITALS. van|| o ol Cairo -el Kahira - the largest African and Arab city, known for its incredibly intense daily traffic, appreciates the Van Hool city buses for their quality and heavy duty soli dity. Some 520 Van Hool city buses have been serving successfully the Cairenes since 1973. SAFETY BEFORE EVERYTHING A VAN HOOL is a self-supporting highly resistant vehicle body made of closed steel profiles welded together electri cally on studied jigs and dies for accuracy of reproduction. A VAN HOOL body fits the chassis to perfection to form a flexible and indestructible whole. As a matter of real fact, the main structural resistance of a modern design body is given by the body itself. The chassis contribution is essen tial but limited. The sides, the stiles and the trusses combine to form a tough cell structure, not unlike a beecomb, which absorbs the main impact of the possible collisions and limits them to the damaged part. In this way every passenger has an uni Nairobi the fastest growing African capital-city. Here is a management formly distributed protection around himself. staff coach: Van Hool Alizee body on Mercedes OF 1617. VAN HOOL HAS THE INDUSTRIAL POTENTIAL CAPABLE OF SUPPLYING, ON SCHEDULE, SERIES OF VEHICLES TO SUIT EACH PARTICULAR — WORK — COUNTRY — CLIMATE TED BUSES FOR LUANDA The «maximbombo» articulated Van Hool bus on Volvo B 58. A first batch of 50 units Panafrican dem onstration bus with MAN powering made for is already in full operation in Luanda, capital of the People’s Republic of Angola. Their tropical clim ates both moist and dry. good performance determined the Angolan Government to place a repeat order for Intercity bus for Uganda, another 50 unit batch Van Hool artics on Volvo B 10 M. w WORLD CHASSIS MAKERS CARRY OUT LARGE BUS ORDERS SUCCESSFULLY FOR AFRICA WITH VAN HOOL BODIES. FIAT, LEYLAND, MERCEDES, M.A.N., PEGASO, SCANIA, VOLVO etc. THE VAN HOOL KNOW-HOW A NEW APPROACH TO AN INDUSTRIAL PHILOSOPHY A user of self-designed and conventional equipment from the start, VAN HOOL has invested a great deal of work, talent and experience in engineering. The result is an advanced know-how based on an industrial combination not easy to imitate: highly productive factories on the one hand and on the other the creative versatility of the free-lance craftsman. The VAN HOOL industry is based on specialized series of vehicles built to suit specific jobs but it retains the full advantage of standardization for mass produced essential parts. This is how and why a VAN HOOL, bus or commercial vehicle, is basically adaptable. It can incorporate products of the best known component makers, yet a VAN HOOL remains a vehicle built as the best answer to the client’s SDecific needs. VAN HOOL plants at Koningshooikt-Lier, Belgium (Province of Antwerp) over 90 acres grounds of which about 40 acres bulltup. Coach and bus factory. Selfstanding commercial vehicle plant (40.000 sq. m. under roof). Behind this ample and versatile industrial organization, stand the three factory Research and Development Centers. After-sales centrale with Research and Development Centers specialized in coaches, buses and com computerized listings, connected to all VAN HOOL technical mercial vehicles. They concentrate and screen the concrete operational feed branches in Europe. Prototype Department. Laboratories and back from everywhere in the world where there are VAN HOOLs at work, quality control sections. A staff of 2500 including 150 engineers rehash them’lnto drawings and methods, have them checked in the factory’s and technicians. laboratories or if necessary by university laboratories and eventually intro duce them into production. In other words: "CHOOSE THE CHASSIS YOU PREFER, VAN HOOL Thus VAN HOOL aualitv means: "THE BEST OF THE BELGIAN INDUS WILL GIVE IT THE BEST SUITED BODY FOR YOU, FOR IT AND FOR TRIAL TRADITION ENRICHED BY 30 YEARS FIELD EXPERIENCE IN THE JOB». 50 COUNTRIES OF THE 5 CONTINENTS.* In Africa, as everywhere else in the world, the driver who is master The VAN HOOL buses for Africa are aboard after God has a right to all ergonomic attentions. designed and made to suit the specific One of the luxury coaches on Ley- land built by VAN HOOL for Fes- needs of the client countries. tac, the first African Art Festival or ganized in Lagos. 50 units. Articulated bus on Fiat built by VAN HOOL and finished locally by S.T.I.A. (Societe Tunisienne d’lndustrie Auto mobile). Before starting her bus building industry under Van Hool licence, Tunisia had acquired several hundreds VAN HOOL buses in different stages of completion and fini shing. PRINTED IN BELGIUM The African transporters shall always find a positive spirit of cooperation with VAN HOOL, based mainly on a constant and warm human contact. Bernard VAN HOOL, the Founder of the VAN HOOL factories, did not travel much. However he did go to Kinshasa to see the buses he had designed and made in Koningshooikt, at work under the tropics. Here he is in the middle of a group of drivers of Kinshasa’s Public Transport Authority. The African engineers and technicians on study trips in Europe find friendly and interesting contacts at Koningshooikt. Several technician teams of the Algerian bus company RSTA have followed pratical courses at the Van Hool factories of Koningshooikt. YOUNG AFRICA IS AN OLD HOSPITABLE LAND WHOSE ARMS ARE WIDE OPEN TO ALL TOURISTS. THE VAN HOOL COACHES ARE ALREADY THERE TO TAKE THEM TO THE HOLIDAYS OF THEIR DREAMS. Small reception coach with Spanish components on duty on the Cairo Airport working under the colours of Masrair._____________________________ A spectacular and very comfortable «Alizee» coach on Volvo B 58 for the Tunisian tourism. Van Hool 760 Grand Luxury coach (European make) built to the order of Bestours of Cairo. You may travel on it on your next visit to the Pyramids..

Load more