Tuesday, 28 March 2017
AKU 165T: Operator's They Come and Go In a Flash
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3 comments:
Serveverse? Serverse?
I seem to recall they had almost as many ways of spelling their name as they did buses in their fleet...
I also seem to recall that they were somehow tied in with the Burman/Tame Valley mob, who kept reinventing themselves on a regular basis as new companies.
The words "Fly, "By" and "Night" spring to mind... ;-)
Fly by night might sound harsh and some of these entrepeneurs might also have been enthusiasts trying to live the dream none making much money, perhaps they just had trouble keeping afloat especially when then DVLA or is it VOSA weren't too reluctant to remove a licence to operate which caused them to resurface again later.
Fly by night is a bit harsh, yes, and I suspect that the owners may (at least originally) have been enthusiasts - and I had a soft spot for Tame Valley's "Go With The Gherkin" branding - but if they were enthusiasts, it seemed at the time that they were the sort of enthusiasts fully prepared to play with the legalities of company ownership in order to get round the legalities of bus company operation, and that's perhaps not exactly what we want to see in our bus operators!
I suspect that many of the deregulation-era start-ups wouldn't even get off the ground today and whilst it means there's far less variety it also means there are far fewer dodgy operators around.
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