Brighton, Hove and District Omnibus Co
1935 Thomas Tilling Ltd formed a company the Brighton, Hove & District Omnibus Company Ltd as an autonomous subsidiary of the parent group. Buses were branded as Brighton, Hove & District and continued to run alongside the Corporation’s trams and the motor buses run by Southdown.[1]
1948 Nationalised; ownership transferred to the British Transport Commission[2]
1964 the BTC was replaced with the Transport Holding Co
1969 Part of the National Bus Co. Brighton and Hove Omnibus Co and Southdown Motor Services were put under common local management in the National Bus Company with the Southdown brand coming to dominate.
1985 The Brighton and Hove Omnibus Co was recreated
1986 deregulation of bus services
1987 privatisation of the company through a management buy-out
1993 the Company was sold to the Go-Ahead Northern bus company.
1994 Go-Ahead floated on the stock market as the Go-Ahead Group plc
1997 Go-Ahead Group purchased Brighton Transport (which had been Brighton Borough Council's transport undertaking) and integrated it with the Brighton and Hove Company.