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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 Vectis bus company was formed in 1922. At first, it used only double decker buses; however, a review found that island roads were not always suitable and so single deckers were used instead (double deckers were re-introduced in 1936). In 1929, the Vectis Bus Company was bought by Southern Railway, forming Southern Vectis.
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The OFT report, published in 1988, found Southern Vectis' behaviour to be anti-competitive, preventing smaller bus operators from establishing awareness and competing effectively. [4] [5] Southern Vectis was presented with an ultimatum following the report, either allow competitors to use the bus station, or face the Monopolies and Mergers ...
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 ...
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.
Wightbus was a bus operator on the Isle of Wight, established and owned by Mr Anand Pandya, Mr Ryan Reed, and the Isle of Wight County Council.It operated a network of thirteen local bus services running across the island, mostly services which would not have been viable for the island's dominant commercial operator, Southern Vectis, to operate.
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