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1115:Maidstone & District Motor Services
718:Mexborough and Swinton Traction Company
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322:National Express buys 200 London buses
305:Basher Bowker pulls the plug on Connex
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606:North Western Road Car Company (1923)
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466:Former bus companies operating in
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768:West Yorkshire Road Car Company
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576:Lancashire United Transport
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992:Silver Star Motor Services
753:United Automobile Services
290:Train firm loses franchise
148:. It purchased a fleet of
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274:Abellio: a brief history
109:. It was a subsidiary of
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1308:London Pride Sightseeing
1155:Southdown Motor Services
1075:Cavendish Motor Services
1012:Trathens Travel Services
957:Crosville Motor Services
846:North Birmingham Busways
621:Red & White Services
566:John Fishwick & Sons
526:Crosville Motor Services
506:Bluebird Bus & Coach
1555:Scottish Motor Traction
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952:Bristol Omnibus Company
871:Stevensons of Uttoxeter
866:South Notts Bus Company
831:Glossopdale Bus Company
698:Busways Travel Services
651:Yelloway Motor Services
1170:Thames Valley Traction
1135:New Enterprise Coaches
708:Durham Travel Services
641:Transdev Northern Blue
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972:Great Western Railway
626:Ribble Motor Services
259:New kid on the block
136:built for Connex for
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1450:Kelvin Central Buses
491:Birkenhead Transport
417:National Bus Company
377:Associated Motorways
277:Coach & Bus Week
204:Connex South Eastern
200:Connex South Central
115:Transport for London
1540:Munro's of Jedburgh
1520:First Scotland East
1185:Yellow Bus Services
1150:Southampton Citybus
1125:Marchwood Motorways
1070:Boro'line Maidstone
531:Finglands Coachways
496:Blackburn Transport
382:Blazefield Holdings
325:The Daily Telegraph
309:The Daily Telegraph
244:Connex bus service
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1430:Clydeside Scottish
1417:Scottish Bus Group
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929:South West England
783:Yorkshire Traction
688:Black Prince Buses
680:North East England
561:Jim Stones Coaches
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1228:Capital Logistics
1027:Western Greyhound
1002:Southern National
881:Travel Merry Hill
876:Travel de Courcey
861:Probus Management
826:First Northampton
778:Yorkshire Terrier
758:Venture Transport
728:OK Motor Services
703:Cleveland Transit
392:British Coachways
154:Dennis Trident 2s
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967:Greyhound Motors
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836:Go West Midlands
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1080:Countryliner
1055:Alder Valley
1037:Yellow Buses
748:Tates Travel
738:Scarlet Band
636:Speedwellbus
616:Pennine Blue
511:Bu-Val Buses
402:Fraser Eagle
324:
317:
312:29 June 2003
307:
300:
295:27 June 2003
285:
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197:
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96:Bus services
93:Service type
83:Service area
73:Headquarters
29:
1643:GHA Coaches
1565:Western SMT
1258:Kentish Bus
896:Zak's Buses
541:GHA Coaches
387:British Bus
175:and routes
1699:Categories
1658:Padarn Bus
1535:McKindless
1515:Dart Buses
1510:A1 Service
1263:Limebourne
1253:Harris Bus
1248:Grey-Green
1105:Invictaway
1100:Fleet Buzz
1022:Wessex Bus
947:Badgerline
586:Maynes Bus
516:ChesterBus
486:Avon Buses
218:References
158:Beddington
77:Beddington
18:Limebourne
1626:Companies
1323:NSL Buses
1208:Bexleybus
1017:WebberBus
982:Nippy Bus
713:Jolly Bus
693:BrightBus
631:Shearings
596:Merseybus
412:HCT Group
407:GRT Group
173:Battersea
60:July 1999
1409:Scotland
1368:Scotland
1353:Westlink
1007:Sureline
942:Alexcars
919:MK Metro
793:Midlands
646:UK North
551:GM Buses
370:National
293:BBC News
1550:Rapsons
1403:Former
1333:Thorpes
891:Yourbus
841:Ludlows
469:England
431:England
152:bodied
146:route 3
138:route 3
132:bodied
121:History
65:Defunct
57:Founded
1730:Veolia
1233:Connex
1180:Velvet
111:Connex
51:Connex
47:Parent
1618:Wales
1580:Wales
262:Buses
937:Abus
247:Rail
202:and
191:and
164:and
1405:bus
1318:MTL
601:MTL
571:JPT
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181:211
177:156
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