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British Bus was founded in November 1992 when the Drawlane Transport Group [2] split its bus interests from its National Express in the lead up to the stock market listing of the latter. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] British Bus' owner had proposed floating the company on the stock exchange, however this was cancelled and the business sold to the Cowie Group in ...
Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE. "Say" for EG, used to mean "for example". More obscure clue words of this variety include: "Model" for T, referring to the Model T.
Most bus services in the United Kingdom are run by the Big Five, five large groups of companies which emerged in the 1990s from the consolidation of bus companies privatised in the 1980s. These groups are all focused on transport. Some of them also run rail services, express coach services and overseas transport companies. They are: Arriva
A reference to the British railway line running from London Victoria and London Bridge to Brighton. Doctor's orders Number 9 was a laxative pill given out by army doctors in WWII. 10 (Current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom) Keir's den The name refers to 10 Downing Street the home of the UK Prime Minister. 11 Legs eleven
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
Back in my early days as a film critic, I took a certain unseemly pleasure in mocking inadvertently funny flops — fiascoes like “The Lonely Lady,” “The Room” and pretty much anything by ...
Passengers on board an old Leyland Titan open-top bus view the scenery in Devon. An open top bus is a bus, usually but not exclusively a double-decker bus, which has been built or modified to operate without a roof. Early buses were constructed without roofs but in more recent times they have only been built for tourist and sightseeing services.
Bus Patronage, Bus policy changes, and growth of car ownership in Great Britain 1950–2020. The post-war Labour government embarked on a programme of nationalisation of transport. Under the Transport Act 1947, the British Transport Commission acquired the bus services of Thomas Tilling, Scottish Motor Traction and the large independent Red ...