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Shearings (legally Shearings Travel Limited) [1] is a coach tour operator, part of the Leger Shearings Group, based in the United Kingdom.The tour operator brand specialises in holidays including escorted tours, unescorted tours, short breaks, self-drive holidays and river cruises throughout the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Ireland and Continental Europe.
Mobico Group, formerly National Express Group, is a British multinational public transport company with headquarters in Birmingham, England. [4] Domestically it currently operates bus and coach services under brands including National Express.
Leger started operating coach tour holidays between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, from their base in Rotherham, South Yorkshire since 1983. [3] [7] [8]The parent company, as of 2022, is Leger Shearings Group which is 70% owned by Ian and Kathleen Henry, with the remaining 30% owned by company directors, Liam Race, Andrew Oldfield and Chris Plummer.
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Coach services were deregulated under the Transport Act 1980, and buses by the Transport Act 1985. In March 1988 National Express was privatised in a management buyout. [6] In July 1989, the company bought ATL Holdings [7] (with operations in Sheffield) and a 50% share in Yelloway Trathen, which was renamed Trathens Travel Services. [8] [9]
In 2005 the Worthing Coaches [3] business was purchased followed in March 2006 by Flagship from Eastbourne Buses. [4] [5]In January 2009 Lucketts Travel took over operation of National Express routes from Portsmouth to London Victoria Coach Station (030), Heathrow Airport (203) and Bristol (300) from Tellings-Golden Miller.
Midland Red Eastern Coach Works bodied Leyland Leopard in National Holidays livery. From 1986, bus services in the UK were deregulated and progressively privatised, with the remaining larger companies forcibly broken up. NBC was divided into 70 units, with the first sale being of National Holidays to Pleasurama in July 1986. [19]
[2] [1] Acklams subsequently expanded into providing event transport and coach tours, [4] operating over 250 "door to door" coach holidays across the United Kingdom and Europe by 2019, [5] and would acquire the operations of Kingston upon Hull-based Jim Bell Coaches in 2016 and Driffield-based BusKing in 2019.