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Silver Star Motor Services started operating services In September 1923, between Allington, Porton Camp and Salisbury, in the south of Wiltshire. [1] The first vehicle was a Ford Model T, with a 14-seat body by Pitt of Fordingbridge. [2] An additional route was started in 1926, linking Salisbury with the military camp at Sling. [3]
Silver Star Holidays is a coach operating company based in Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales.Founded in 1918, its primary operation is coach holiday tours. Local bus services in Gwynedd were run by Silver Star until November 2010, when they were sold to Express Motors.
Hants & Dorset Motor Services Ltd was a stage carriage bus service operator in southern England between 1920 and 1983. Early history ... Silver Star of Porton Down.
Express Motors was established in 1908. [1] It remained a family-owned business and was owned by Eric Jones. [2] It operated a small number of local bus services alongside its main coach hire work until 1970, when the bus routes were sold to Silver Star.
Between 1984 and 1986 and again from 1991 to 1993, the Capitol Limited exchanged a Chicago-Miami coach with the New York-Miami Silver Star at Washington, D.C. During 1997 and part of 1998, Amtrak operated the Capitol Limited in conjunction with the Southwest Chief, a daily Los Angeles–Chicago service.
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The Silver Star is a temporarily discontinued long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on a 1,522-mile (2,449 km) route between New York City and Miami via Washington, D.C.; Richmond, Virginia; Raleigh, North Carolina; Columbia, South Carolina; Savannah, Georgia; Jacksonville, Florida; and Tampa, Florida.
Moving into the 1930s saw the take overs of the tramways of Dover and Thanet, with the trams being quickly replaced with motor buses. During the Second World War, East Kent vehicles were regular targets for enemy aircraft and their long-range guns, from across the Channel on the French coast, after the fall of France. To try to combat this, the ...