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“david devoy”

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  • The McKindless Group

    by David Devoy ...
    The McKindless bus company started off as a small operation of a few buses, a lorry and two coaches in 1987, and traded under the name of Chartered Coaches. Its aim was to provide school contracts and private hires, but it quickly moved into local bus operation, spurred on by the problems suffered by its larger neighbour Central Scottish. The company would sell its services to Kelvin Central Buses ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Glasgow and Dunbartonshire Independents

    by David Devoy ...
    Local bus and tram services in Glasgow were traditionally operated by the Corporation Transport Department, which had a monopoly in the city limits from 1930 onwards. This meant buses of the Scottish Bus Group and others could not pick up passengers once they passed the city boundary, although passengers could be set down. As the city expanded, this agreement only covered the boundaries up to 1938 ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Scottish Citylink Coaches

    by David Devoy ...
    The Scottish Bus Group decided to bring all of its express coaches, London services and coach tours under the umbrella of Scottish Citylink Coaches. This was to raise standards and use a fleet of luxury coaches to work a unified network. This would raise awareness and unleash a fleet of coaches all in the same livery, echoing what National Express had already created in England. Packed with a ... Read more

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  • Stagecoach West Scotland

    by David Devoy ...
    This book continues the story of the erstwhile Western SMT company. Stagecoach West Scotland operates in west central and south-west Scotland, in an area bounded by Greenock and Braehead to the north, Hamilton to the east, Carlisle to the south and the Isle of Arran to the west. Frequent express services also reach Glasgow from throughout Ayrshire. Stagecoach West Scotland has operated under ... Read more

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  • Strathtay Scottish Buses

    by David Devoy ...
    Strathtay Scottish was a product of the state-owned Scottish Bus Group’s attempts to prepare for deregulation and possible privatisation in the mid-1980s. It combined a part of Midland Scottish, based around Perthshire, with a part of Northern Scottish based in Dundee and Angus. The Strathtay management tried to buy the company during the privatisation of the Scottish Bus Group, but was ultimately ... Read more

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  • Western SMT Buses

    by David Devoy ...
    Western SMT was formed in 1932, when the Scottish General Transport Company (which operated buses in Renfrewshire and Ayrshire) merged with Midland Bus Services, which operated from the south-west of Glasgow as far as Ayr, Stranraer and Dumfries. From 1949 to 1991 Western SMT was state-owned, first as part of the British Transport Commission and then as part of the Scottish Bus Group. In the run ... Read more

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  • Central SMT Buses

    by David Devoy ...
    Scottish Motor Traction, or SMT, was originally founded in Edinburgh in 1905. In 1932, Central SMT was founded from a network of services that had been controlled by the London, Midland & Scottish Railway which radiated out from Glasgow into Lanarkshire, and from the services of two further major Lanarkshire bus operators. Nationalised in 1948, Central SMT would become part of the Scottish Bus ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Lanarkshire Independents

    by David Devoy ...
    David Devoy was first introduced to many of the independent Lanarkshire bus fleets back in the 1960s when he saw many of them on football hires to Glasgow, and on a school trip to visit a railway signal box in Motherwell which produced a street full of Hutchison’s blue AEC service buses. Although the Scottish Bus Group operated the majority of services through their Central SMT and Eastern ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fife Independents

    by David Devoy ...
    Fife, a council area and historic county of Scotland, is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire. It has always been a difficult place to reach and this was especially so before the opening of the Forth and Tay road bridges. While historically most bus services were provided by W. Alexander & Sons after they ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Scotland's Independent Coach Operators

    by David Devoy ...
    As with everything, the coach industry has changed beyond all recognition over the last few decades. In the past, an operator would purchase a coach and run it for many years to get back their initial investment. More often than not, lightweight chassis were purchased because of the lower purchase price, and these could be changed every few years, keeping a modern look to the fleet. It was always ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Ayrshire Buses

    by David Devoy ...
    Long before Stagecoach, Arriva or First Bus, Ayrshire Independents fought it out with Western SMT on the local and long-distance routes within the county. Ayrshire was unusual in the fact that many small bus operators formed themselves into associations to compete against a much larger company. They not only survived, but prospered for the best part of eighty years. This book shows many of these ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Strathclyde Buses

    by David Devoy ...
    Strathclyde Buses can trace its roots back to the tram services provided by Glasgow Corporation, which started running buses in 1924 as a more cost-effective way of reaching the new, large council housing schemes on the outskirts of the city. Operating within the city of Glasgow and to locations such as East Kilbride, Cumbernauld, Balloch and Johnstone, the Strathclyde buses in their orange and ... Read more

    $11.69 USD