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Berkhof Groep

Industry	Automotive
Founded	1970
Founder	Arthur Berkhof Henk Berkhof
Defunct	2010
Successor	VDL Bus & Coach
Headquarters	The Netherlands
Products	Buses
Parent	VDL Groep
Subsidiaries	Jonckheere
Website	www.vdlberkhof.com

Berkhof Groep (later Berkhof Jonckheere Groep and VDL Berkhof) was a Netherlands based bus and coach builder, founded in 1970 by Arthur Berkhof and his son Henk. It started with only 10 employees in a 1,000 m² factory. During the first 18 months the company only carried out bus repairs.

In 1985, the operation moved to a brand new 10,000 m² facility in Valkenswaard. The number of employees was now 132. The factory expanded in 1989 by an additional 10,000 m² resulting in a production capacity of 350 units a year following the acquisition of Hainje.^[1]

In 1994 Belgium bus and coach manufacturer Jonckheere with a total sales of 400 units per year and 500 employees, was acquired. The total staff number of employees of the Berkhof Groep now reached 1,200.

In 1997, the company changed its name from Berkhof Groep to Berkhof Jonckheere Groep. In 1998 it was bought by the VDL Groep and in 2010 was subsumed by VDL Bus & Coach.

The company has also built low-floor articulated trolleybuses for Arnhem in the Netherlands,^[2] and Solingen in Germany.^[3]

Former models

References

^ In Brief Commercial Motor 16 February 1989
^ Murray, Alan (2000). World Trolleybus Encyclopaedia, p. 109. Yateley, Hampshire, UK: Trolleybooks. ISBN 0-904235-18-1.
^ Trolleybus Magazine No. 252 (Nov.-Dec. 2003), p. 132. National Trolleybus Association (UK). ISSN 0266-7452.

External links

Media related to Berkhof vehicles at Wikimedia Commons
VDL Berkhof official website

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Defunct motor racing	Boro (Formula One) Carly Motors Spyker F1
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(1) Under foreign ownership (2) Under automatic stay; bankruptcy petition was filed, but not granted Commons: Automobile manufacturers of the Netherlands

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