BanburyBlue
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Can someone explain the relationship between the traditional bus companies and the new de-regulated companies.
Where we live our buses are run by Stagecoach Oxfordshire, but on the side of the buses in small print it still says Midland Red (South), Railway Terrace, Rugby. I'm assuming the same happens elsewhere. When I checked on that well known source of information Wikipedia, it states that "Midland Red South was sold on 10 December 1987 to Western Travel Limited who also owned the Cheltenham & Gloucester Omnibus Company. Today it is part of Stagecoach in Oxfordshire and Stagecoach in Warwickshire".
It seems strange to me that if Midland Red was sold, why their name is still printed on the sides of their buses?
Thanks.
Where we live our buses are run by Stagecoach Oxfordshire, but on the side of the buses in small print it still says Midland Red (South), Railway Terrace, Rugby. I'm assuming the same happens elsewhere. When I checked on that well known source of information Wikipedia, it states that "Midland Red South was sold on 10 December 1987 to Western Travel Limited who also owned the Cheltenham & Gloucester Omnibus Company. Today it is part of Stagecoach in Oxfordshire and Stagecoach in Warwickshire".
It seems strange to me that if Midland Red was sold, why their name is still printed on the sides of their buses?
Thanks.