- Founded
- 1934
- Headquarters
- Arbúcies, Spain
Ramón Beulas and Narcís Pujol founded Carrocerías Beulas at Arbúcies, Girona, in 1934, initially building wooden bodies amid the timber-rich Selva district. The workshop converted truck chassis into coaches by 1936 and built military ambulances during the Spanish Civil War. Through the 1940s and 1950s each coach was individually designed for its customer, with output rising from roughly six to ten vehicles annually as wood gave way to mixed and metal construction. Expansion during the 1960s permitted 12-metre, 59-seat front- and rear-engine coaches, while standardized front and rear sections prepared the company for named series. Beulas 75 appeared in 1975–77, followed by the successful Panorama, Superpanorama and Eurostar E-83 bodies in the 1980s and Stergo from 1988. International distribution expanded first into Germany and the United Kingdom during the 1990s. Aura and Cygnus launched as a technologically revised pair around 2002; Stergo became Spica and Gianino was restyled in 2006. New-generation Glory and double-deck Jewel coaches followed in 2008–09, with further facelifts across the range in 2012 and 2018. The current principal body families are Jewel, Glory, Mythos, Aura, Cygnus and Kala, each offered in multiple lengths and highly individualized interiors. The 2021 Jewel E, developed with Equipmake, extended the line into battery-electric double-deck buses. Beulas reports more than 10,000 coach bodies sold in over 25 countries. Its bodies use third-party chassis and powertrains from makers such as Volvo, Scania, MAN, Mercedes-Benz, Iveco and VDL; the catalog therefore treats Beulas body names as the models and preserves chassis selection as configuration data rather than duplicating every combination.
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