{"id":7827,"date":"2015-09-17T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7827"},"modified":"2015-09-16T14:11:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:11:29","slug":"thames-water-taps-into-new-ford-cv-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7827","title":{"rendered":"Thames Water taps into new Ford CV range"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ford has won a tender to supply Thames Water with around 900 new vans over the next three years.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

The single-badge deal with Ford will see the UK\u2019s largest water and wastewater services provider taking vehicles from across the Ford commercial vehicle range \u2013 Fiesta Van, Transit Connect, Transit Custom, Transit and Ranger.<\/p>\n

The first batch of 223 vans has been delivered to the company\u2019s bases in London and south-east England, and will play a vital role in Thames Water\u2019s provision of water services to its nine million customers.<\/p>\n

The van fleet \u2013 consisting of Transit Custom, Transit Connect, Transit, Fiesta Van and Ford Ranger \u2013 is equipped and liveried at the Southall workshops of Bri-Stor Systems.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/p>\n

Michelle Nasr, Thames Water\u2019s fleet and transportation manager, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cOur fleet of 1,300 commercial vehicles is absolutely vital to the smooth running of our operations, and in maintaining the flow of 2,600 million litres of drinking water every day to our customers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The tender process was measured by whole-life costs, with Ford meeting all Thames Water\u2019s vehicle requirements. Stephen Gafson, Ford direct sales manager, said:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted to have won this new contract with Thames Water, and to have come out on top in the company\u2019s very thorough review and tender process.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ford has won a 900-van deal to supply a mixture of new vans to Thames Water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[123,548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7830,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827\/revisions\/7830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}