§ Mr. Nicholas Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the former National Bus Company companies which have been privatised by type of purchase including management buyout.
§ Mr. David MitchellThirty-nine National Bus Company subsidiaries have been sold since sales began in July 1986, 25 to their own managements or employees. The details are as follows:
Management-employee buyouts
- Badgerline Ltd.
- Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company Ltd.
- Cambus Ltd.
- Cheltenham and Gloucester Omnibus Company Ltd.
- The City of Oxford Motor Services Ltd.
- Devon General Ltd.
- Eastern Counties Omnibus Ltd.
- East Kent Road Car Company Ltd.
- The Eastern National Omnibus Company Ltd.
- East Yorkshire Motor Services Ltd.
- The Maidstone and District Motor Services Ltd.
- Midland Red Coaches Ltd.
- Midland Red West Ltd.
- National Welsh Omnibus Services Ltd.
- The Northern General Transport Company Ltd.
- Potteries Motor Traction Company Ltd.
- Provincial Bus Company Ltd.
- The Southern Vectis Omnibus Company Ltd.
- South Midland Ltd.
- The South Wales Transport Company Ltd.
- Trent Motor Traction Company Ltd.
- Wessex National Ltd.
- West Riding Automobile Company Ltd.
- Wilts and Dorset Bus Company Ltd.
- The Yorkshire Traction Company Ltd.
Third Party Purchases
- Alder Valley Engineering Ltd.
- Bristol Engineering Ltd.
- Carlyle Works Ltd.
- Cumberland Motor Services Ltd.
- Eastern National Engineering Ltd.
- H and D Distribution Ltd.
- Hampshire Bus Company Ltd.
- Kent Engineering (NBC) Ltd.
- National Holidays Ltd.
- NTE Coaches Ltd.
- Pilgrim Coaches Ltd.
- Shamrock and Rambler Coaches Ltd.
- Southdown Engineering Services Ltd.
- United Counties Engineering Ltd.