bus in 2005. The chassis was made by Spijkstaal.In 1934 Gerrit Neuteboom, a smith from
Spijkenisse, won first prize in an agricultural exhibition in
Kruiningen in
Zeeland with a steel-framed
farm wagon with
pneumatic tires, which could therefore bear heavier loads and took less horse power to pull. In 1938 he founded the company Spijkstaal, producing wagons for the agricultural sector. In the fifties the company diversified to produce trailers, windows and other construction elements, In 1995, Spijkstaal converted a conventional
Volkswagen Caravelle into a fully-electric van that could hold eight passengers, part of a project testing the viability of fully electric consumer vehicles in the Netherlands. Spijkstaal provided the chassis for the
ParkShuttle autonomous shuttle service in
Capelle aan den IJssel and
Rotterdam. Spijkstaal Elektro declared
bankruptcy in 2015 and was acquired in September 2015 by Peinemann Holding, continuing operations as Spijkstaal International. ==See also==