Author: Walter Burt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445634767
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Book Description
This latest volume by Walter Burt uses a wonderful collection of period and contemporary images to tell the story of Midland Scottish and its buses
Author: Professor of Ecclesiastical History Stewart J Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780711035522
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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In 1961 Scotland's biggest bus company, W Alexander & Sons of Falkirk, was divided into three separate businesses. A new Midland company took over what had been the southern area of the business, and retained Alexander's blue livery and its Falkirk head office. It operated local services to the north and east of Glasgow, and in Stirling, Falkirk, Alloa, Perth and Oban. It also operated inter-urban services throughout this area, and to Edinburgh and Dundee. Operations in Fife passed to a new Fife company, with local services throughout the region, and long-distance services to Glasgow. The Fife company had around 500 buses and adopted a new livery of Ayres red. It established its head office in Kirkcaldy. Alexander's northern region became the new Northern company. Its operations covered the east of Scotland from Dundee to the Moray Firth. As well as a comprehensive network of services throughout the area, it had limited local operations in Dundee and Aberdeen, and ran long-distance services south to Glasgow and east to Inverness. For the following 24 years the three companies' operating territories remained largely unchanged. Each of them acquired many of the small number of independent bus operators in their areas as the 1960s progressed. The Scottish Bus Group was reorganised in June 1985 and this affected two of the Alexander companies. Midland lost its Glasgow area operations to a new company, Kelvin, while its operations in Perthshire went to another new company, Strathtay. Northern lost its operations in and around Tayside to the new Strathtay business, reducing the Northern fleet from 320 to 250 buses. Fife was unaffected by the changes. They were privatised in 1990-91 when Midland was sold to GRT Holdings and continues today as part of FirstGroup. Northern and Fife were sold to Stagecoach, which would later also acquire Strathtay. This book outlines the Alexander story in its early years, then examines the effect of the split in the company in 1961, and the following years up to privatisation. It also includes a postscript, looking briefly at the vehicles inherited by Stagecoach and First, and at the former Alexander operations as they are today. Alongside various colour photographs, the book will also features tables showing a summary by vehicle type of the three fleets in 1961, 1985 and at the time of privatisation and a map copied from a 1960s timetable to illustrate the extent of the three companies' operating areas.
Author: Kenny Barclay
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445670003
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Book Description
Rare and unpublished images from this iconic period in Scotland's transport history.
Author: Kenny Barclay
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445687437
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Book Description
Kenny Barclay offers up another superb selection of photographs documenting this interesting period.
Author: David Devoy
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445691280
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Book Description
A fascinating look at one of Scotland's most interesting bus operators, combined with some fascinating pictures.
Author: David Devoy
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144567467X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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Book Description
David Devoy selects some of the finest images from his extensive collection to document Lowland Scottish buses.
Author: Peter Findlay
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445615517
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs gives an insight into the history of the buses operated by Northern Scottish.
Author: R. T. Foster
Publisher: Dpr Marketing & Sales
ISBN:
Category : Bus lines
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: Martin Helm
Publisher: Granta Editions
ISBN: 1857570960
Category : Carriers
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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Author: David Devoy
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445691485
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Book Description
Previously unpublished photographs from popular bus author David Devoy, this tells a fascinating story that shows just how far the Scottish bus industry has come.
