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Bristol Omnibus Company

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The Bristol Omnibus Company was the dominant bus operator in Bristol, and was one of the oldest bus companies in the United Kingdom. [1]

63 relations: Badgerline, Bath bus station, Bath Tramways, Bath, Somerset, Bridgwater, Bristol, Bristol Aeroplane Company, Bristol Archives, Bristol Bus Boycott, Bristol bus station, Bristol Commercial Vehicles, Bristol F.2 Fighter, Bristol Tramways, British Rail, British Transport Commission, Buses in Bristol, Cheltenham, Clement Attlee, Clifton Rocks Railway, Clifton, Bristol, Coleford, Gloucestershire, Dundry, Eastern Coach Works, First Midland Red, First West of England, FirstGroup, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Great Western Railway, Greyhound Motors, GRT Group, GWR road motor services, Hereford, History of local government in Bristol, Imperial Tramways Company, London, Lowestoft, Management buyout, National Bus Company (UK), Oxford, Paul Stephenson (civil rights campaigner), Racial segregation, Red & White Services, Salisbury, Severn Bridge, Sir George White, 1st Baronet, Somerset, Stagecoach Group, Stagecoach West, ..., Stroud, Swindon, The Centre, Bristol, Thomas Tilling, Transport Holding Company, Trowbridge, Wells, Somerset, Western National, Weston-super-Mare, Whiteladies Road, Wiltshire, World War I, World War II. Expand index (13 more) »

Badgerline

Badgerline was a bus operator in and around Bristol from 1985 until 2003.

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Bath bus station

Bath bus station serves as part of an integrated transport interchange for the city of Bath, Somerset, England.

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Bath Tramways

Bath Tramways Company and its successors operated a horse drawn tramway service in Bath between 1880 and 1902.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath is the largest city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths.

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Bridgwater

Bridgwater is a large historic market town and civil parish in Somerset, England.

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Bristol

Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.

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Bristol Aeroplane Company

The Bristol Aeroplane Company, originally the British and Colonial Aeroplane Company, was both one of the first and one of the most important British aviation companies, designing and manufacturing both airframes and aircraft engines.

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Bristol Archives

Bristol Archives (formerly Bristol Record Office) was established in 1924.

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Bristol Bus Boycott

The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 arose from the refusal of the Bristol Omnibus Company to employ black or Asian bus crews in the city of Bristol, England.

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Bristol bus station

Bristol Bus and Coach Station serves the city of Bristol in the west of England.

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Bristol Commercial Vehicles

Bristol Commercial Vehicles was a vehicle manufacturer located in Bristol, England.

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Bristol F.2 Fighter

The Bristol F.2 Fighter was a British two-seat biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War developed by Frank Barnwell at the Bristol Aeroplane Company.

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Bristol Tramways

Bristol Tramways operated in the city of Bristol, England from 1875, when the Bristol Tramways Company was formed by Sir George White, until 1941 when a Luftwaffe bomb destroyed the main power supply cables.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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British Transport Commission

The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain (Northern Ireland had the separate Ulster Transport Authority).

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Buses in Bristol

Buses are the main form of public transport in Bristol, England.

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Cheltenham

Cheltenham, also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a regency spa town and borough which is located on the edge of the Cotswolds, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Gloucestershire, England.

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Clement Attlee

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman of the Labour Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

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Clifton Rocks Railway

The Clifton Rocks Railway was an underground funicular railway in Bristol, England, linking Clifton at the top to Hotwells and Bristol Harbour at the bottom of the Avon Gorge in a tunnel cut through the limestone cliffs.

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Clifton, Bristol

Clifton is both a suburb of Bristol, England, and the name of one of the city's thirty-five council wards.

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Coleford, Gloucestershire

Coleford is a small market town in the west of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, two miles east of the Welsh border and close to the Wye Valley.

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Dundry

Dundry is a village and civil parish, situated on Dundry Hill in the northern part of the Mendip Hills, between Bristol and the Chew Valley Lake, in the English county of Somerset.

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Eastern Coach Works

Eastern Coach Works 318856 Limited formerly Eastern Coach Works Limited was a bus and train bodybuilder based in Lowestoft, England.

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First Midland Red

First Midland Red First Midland Red Buses Limited formerly Midland Red West Limited is a bus company operating services in Herefordshire and Worcestershire in the English Midlands.

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First West of England

First West of England First West of England Limited formerly First Somerset & Avon Limited formerly First Bristol Buses Limited formerly Bristol Omnibus Company Limited formerly Bristol Tramways & Carriage Company Limited is a bus operator providing services in Bristol, Bath, Somerset, South Gloucestershire and West Wiltshire.

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FirstGroup

FirstGroup plc FirstGroup plc is a Scottish multi-national transport group, registered and operating in the United Kingdom.

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Forest of Dean

The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England.

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Gloucester

Gloucester is a city and district in Gloucestershire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire (formerly abbreviated as Gloucs. in print but now often as Glos.) is a county in South West England.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.

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Greyhound Motors

Greyhound Motors, later known as Bristol Greyhound, was an English bus and coach company based in Bristol.

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GRT Group

GRT Group was a bus operating company in the United Kingdom from 1989 until 1995.

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GWR road motor services

The Great Western Railway road motor services operated from 1903 to 1933, both as a feeder to their train services, and as a cheaper alternative to building new railways in rural areas.

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Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England.

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History of local government in Bristol

Bristol City Council, formerly known as The Bristol Corporation (and colloquially as "The Corporation"), is the local government authority governing the city of Bristol, England.

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Imperial Tramways Company

The Imperial Tramways Company Ltd (1878 to 1930) was created to bring under common management a number of street tramways.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lowestoft

Lowestoft is a town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk.

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Management buyout

A management buyout (MBO) is a form of acquisition where a company's existing managers acquire a large part or all of the company from either the parent company or from the private owners.

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National Bus Company (UK)

The National Bus Company (NBC) was a nationalised bus company that operated in England and Wales between 1969 and 1988.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Paul Stephenson (civil rights campaigner)

Paul Stephenson OBE (born 6 May 1937) is a community worker, activist and long-time campaigner for civil rights for the British African-Caribbean community in Bristol, England.

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Racial segregation

Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.

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Red & White Services

Red & White Services was a bus company operating in south east Wales and Gloucestershire, England between 1929 and 1978.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 40,302, at the confluence of the rivers Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne.

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Severn Bridge

The Severn Bridge (Pont Hafren), sometimes also called the Severn–Wye Bridge, is a motorway suspension bridge operated by Highways England that spans the River Severn and River Wye between Aust, South Gloucestershire in England, and Chepstow, Monmouthshire in South East Wales, via Beachley, Gloucestershire, which is a peninsula between the two rivers.

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Sir George White, 1st Baronet

Sir George White, 1st Baronet (1854–1916) was an English businessman and stockbroker based in Bristol.

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Somerset

Somerset (or archaically, Somersetshire) is a county in South West England which borders Gloucestershire and Bristol to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east and Devon to the south-west.

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Stagecoach Group

Stagecoach Group plc is an international transport group operating buses, trains, trams and express coaches.

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Stagecoach West

Stagecoach West Stagecoach West Limited formerly Western Travel Limited is a bus operator providing services in Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and South Herefordshire, in the west of England.

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Stroud

Stroud is a market town and civil parish in the centre of Gloucestershire, England.

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Swindon

Swindon is a large town in Wiltshire, South West England, between Bristol, to the west, and Reading, the same distance east.

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The Centre, Bristol

The Centre is a public open space in the central area of Bristol, England, created by covering over the River Frome.

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Thomas Tilling

Thomas Tilling Ltd, later known with its subsidiary companies as the Tilling Group, was one of two conglomerates which controlled almost all of the major bus operators in the United Kingdom between World Wars I and II and until nationalisation in 1948.

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Transport Holding Company

The Transport Holding Company (THC) was a British Government-owned company created by the Transport Act 1962 to administer a range of state-owned transport, travel and engineering companies that were previously managed by the British Transport Commission (BTC); it came into existence on 1 January 1963.

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Trowbridge

Trowbridge is the county town of Wiltshire, England on the River Biss in the west of the county, south east of Bath, Somerset, from which it is separated by the Mendip Hills, which rise to the west.

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Wells, Somerset

Wells is a cathedral city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills.

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Western National

Western National was a bus company operating in South West England from 1929 until the 1990s.

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Weston-super-Mare

Weston-super-Mare is a seaside town in Somerset, England, on the Bristol Channel south west of Bristol between Worlebury Hill and Bleadon Hill.

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Whiteladies Road

Whiteladies Road is a main road in Bristol, England.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Omnibus_Company

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