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The Vectis National Party was a minor political party operating on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Formed in 1967, [1] the party sought Crown dependency status for the Isle of Wight, on a similar model to certain other islands including the Isle of Man.
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.
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. The Vectis Tigers, an English ice hockey team on the Isle of Wight founded in 2007, now known as the Wightlink Tigers.
In April 2011, following the closure of tourist information centres across the island by the Isle of Wight Council, Southern Vectis agreed to launch a new visitor information service in the main island towns. The waiting room of the bus station was refurbished to accommodate the new services. [10]
Exposure of the Wessex and Vectis Formations on the South Coast of the Isle of Wight, shown in turquoise. Exposures of the Wessex and Vectis Formations in southern Dorset, shown in turquoise. The Wessex Formation is a fossil -rich English geological formation that dates from the Berriasian to Barremian stages of the Early Cretaceous .
During the summer, Southern Vectis also operates some open-topped buses on tourist routes: the Downs Breezer and the Needles Breezer. Wightbus first started in the 1970s as the Isle of Wight County Council's County Bus and were branded Wightbus in 1997. They operate a smaller network of services that are not viable for a commercial operator ...
Electric services on the Isle of Wight commenced on 20 March 1967. In service, the 4Vec units often worked alone, but sometimes in combination with a 3Tis unit, such that a train was formed of seven coaches known as a 7 Vectis. [6] ("Vectis" was the Roman name for the Isle of Wight. [7])
The Vectis Formation is a geological formation on the Isle of Wight and Swanage, England whose strata were formed in the Barremian, approximately 125 million years ago. [1] [2] The environment of deposition was that of a freshwater coastal lagoon with occasional marine influence after the early Aptian marine transgression, transitioning from the floodplain environment of the underlying Wessex ...