The former head of Northern Ireland’s buses, best known for carrying bombs off his company’s vehicles, has died
Werner Heubeck (85) headed Citybus and Ulsterbus for two decades since the mid-1960s. He died yesterday having fought cancer for some 30 years.
Born in Germany in 1923, he fought with the Luftwaffe in the second World War before being captured and he spent the remainder of the war working in a prison in Louisiana.
After the war Heubeck worked as a translator at the war trials in his home city before moving to Britain, where he met his wife.
While working in Scotland he saw an advertisement for Ulsterbus and, despite knowing little of public transport, applied and was eventually appointed managing director.
Frank Clegg, Translink’s general manager said: “He was a very inspirational leader, a man for his time.”
