Coachbuild Quality project notes

Our customer: Handsworth Play and Community Bus Association ( Birmingham)

The project: A Double Decker Play bus

Customer’s brief:

Handsworth play and community bus association received lottery funding to convert a brand new bus into a playbus for pre-school children in the Aston area of Birmingham. They required a vehicle which would have soft play, quite area, sand & water area and an awning with a stage.

Coachbuild Quality’s solution:

Coachbuild Quality needed to have a meeting with the bus manufacturers to arrange to remove all the seats and destination signs in order to save some money. Once the bus arrived at the workshop we had a few meetings with the customer and together we designed the interior and exterior to suit their requirements.

CQ then proceeded to:

• Fit a water cooled generator
• install heating & lighting systems / roof vents
• Fit carpet to walls / padded ceiling / cupboards
• Fit hardwearing vinyl to lower deck and hardwearing carpet upper deck
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• ……and, using bright and practical materials, created:
• seating and kitchen area at the front of the upper deck
• disabled access- toilet and baby changing area
• sand/water trays and cupboards
• painting, reading & quiet areas
• play area, soft play and sensory area

……externally, CQ added:

• side awning & staging area
• Fire escape ladder at the rear of the upper deck
• paintwork & vinyl livery

The outcome:

A Playbus which will become a friendly face in the local community

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