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Southern Vectis is a bus operator on the Isle of Wight, founded in 1921 as Dodson and Campbell. It became the Vectis Bus Company in 1923. It became the Vectis Bus Company in 1923. The company was purchased by Southern Railway before being nationalised in 1969.
The name and "goodwill" of the company was purchased by Southern Vectis in 1994. Following Southern Vectis' purchase by the Go-Ahead Group in 2005, "Moss Motors" was resurrected as one of several fleet names for the company's coach unit (also including, amongst others, Fountain Coaches and the West Wight Bus & Coach Company). [1] "Moss Motors ...
This is a category for all pages that are related to the Southern Vectis bus company on the Isle of Wight. Pages in category "Southern Vectis" The following 3 pages ...
Vectis Bus Company, the forerunner of present day Isle of Wight bus company Southern Vectis, set up in the early 1920s. Vectis postal service, a postal service set up to serve the Isle of Wight during the postal strikes of 1971. The Vectis National Party, a minor political party operating on the Isle of Wight in the early 1970s.
In 1987, Musterphantom Limited was created by John Chadwick and Peter Shelley. £100,000 was then raised to start operations in May 1987. £75,000 of which came from Southern Vectis, with the new company ending up as a subsidiary. The new company received old Southern Vectis Bristol VRTs to start operating.
Southern Vectis – The brand for all buses on the Isle of Wight; Swindon's Bus Company (formerly Thamesdown Transport) – The brand in Swindon. The company also has three coach brands: [11] Excelsior Coaches – Bournemouth, offering private coach hire, school services and tours; Damory Coaches – school buses and services in central East Dorset
Ryde is the second busiest stop in the Southern Vectis network after Newport. The busiest route is No. 9 to Newport, running every 10 minutes in the daytime. Others include Nos 2, 3, 4 and 8 and local route 37. [5] An open-top bus service, The Downs Tour, runs in the summer. [6]
English: Southern Vectis 710 Orchard Bay (TIL 6710, originally F710 SDL), a Leyland Olympian at the 2007 Cobham bus museum rally, at Longcross test track. The bus is now with Wilts & Dorset . Date