Scottish Transport Group
A state-owned Scottish holding company that included a number of bus operators covering the whole of Scotland.
1961 The Scottish Omnibuses Group (Holdings) Ltd was formed to take control of the British Transport Commission's bus operating subsidiaries in Scotland.
1962 The Scottish Omnibuses group became part of the Transport Holding Co when the British Transport Commission was wound up.
1963 The group was renamed Scottish Bus Group
1969 The Scottish Transport Group was formed on 1 January 1969. The Scottish Bus Group became part of it. Scottish Transport had 7 separate bus companies (but not the 4 municipal bus companies)[1] and David Macbrayne which became a fully-owned subsidiary in June 1969.
1985 The Scottish Bus Group was restructured into 12 smaller subsidiaries with the elimination of two of the best-known names in the Scottish bus industry: the SMT name, used since 1907, and the Alexander name, of almost the same age[2]
1989 The bus companies were to be privatised:
- Eastern Scottish was acquired by management/employees
- Fife Scottish was acquired by Stagecoach
- Highland Scottish was acquired by Rapsons Coaches and Clansman jointly
- Kelvin was acquired by management/employees
- Lowland Scottish was acquired by management/employees
- Midland Scottish was acquired by GRT
- Northern Scottish was acquired by Stagecoach
- Strathtay Scottish was acquired by Yorkshire Traction Co
- Western Scottish, which was merged with Clydeside in 1989, acquired by management of Western Scottish; Clydeside operations were then acquired by Clydeside 2000.
- Citylink, acquired by Clansman which was owned by Citylink management.
The holding company, Scottish Bus Group Ltd, was dissolved in 2002.
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Sources of Information
- [1] Wikipedia