MP Travel

[CTL45]

RE: MP Travel

(06/12/2020 19:22)Mrboo Wrote:  Also, so long as tickets are not sold on the bus you can call it a excursion or tour. so don't need to be a DDA bus as it not classed as a local bus service but a tour

Only if all passengers travel together to the same place and return to the same pick up location.

[Liamkennedy2231]

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Nice to see G15 MPT with the Christmas decorations! Made an effort unlike some who just stick Merry Christmas on the dest

[knutstransport]

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(10/12/2020 14:19)Liamkennedy2231 Wrote:  Nice to see G15 MPT with the Christmas decorations! Made an effort unlike some who just stick Merry Christmas on the dest

In the early 1990s Starline Travel used to go all out at decorating buses for Christmas. One of the regular 300 drivers, who transferred to Arriva Winsford, kept up the tradition until he retired.

[Liamkennedy2231]

RE: MP Travel

(10/12/2020 17:55)knutstransport Wrote:  In the early 1990s Starline Travel used to go all out at decorating buses for Christmas. One of the regular 300 drivers, who transferred to Arriva Winsford, kept up the tradition until he retired.

I admire his enthusiasm, it really does improve people’s moods to have a little festive spirit on their commute

[mptravel]

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MP20 and MP68 have interior deco's also, not sure on G16

[Liamkennedy2231]

RE: MP Travel

(10/12/2020 19:53)mptravel Wrote:  MP20 and MP68 have interior deco's also, not sure on G16

I think it’s great, it’s the little things that count after all

[knutstransport]

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(10/12/2020 20:15)djb Wrote:  Unless they dared to hire a 20 year old dart to another company for a few days when they were starting up; or use a slightly smaller bus on a busy day, in which case the enthusiasts will forever condemn the company to the scrapheap

Just to be clear when I referred to MP Travel loaning out a W reg Dart I referred to actual passengers calling it a vintage bus because in comparison to an almost new Metrocity, which normally got used on the route, it looked vintage. People probably thought the same when GHA used old Darts to fill in for their 'Gold' Enviros.

Were MP Travel not operating in the Hull area for a few years before they changed their registered address to Manchester and then Warrington?

[Mayneway]

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(10/12/2020 20:43)knutstransport Wrote:  Just to be clear when I referred to MP Travel loaning out a W reg Dart I referred to actual passengers calling it a vintage bus because in comparison to an almost new Metrocity, which normally got used on the route, it looked vintage. People probably thought the same when GHA used old Darts to fill in for their 'Gold' Enviros.

Were MP Travel not operating in the Hull area for a few years before they changed their registered address to Manchester and then Warrington?

I thought it was and still is officially Manchester with buses stored in Warrington, hence the connection with Howard’s.
I think the connection with Hull is their relationship with EYMS. Don’t recall them being in Hull?

[M60lad]

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As far as I'm aware the Manchester address is where the owner lives with the vehicles being stored at the former Howards/Springfield yard in Moore near Warrington.

The connection with Hull is partly to do with the fact the owner of MPTravel in the past used to live in Hull and has a good relationship with EYMS from what I can gather.

[CX06 EBK (Administrator)]

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Thread reopened. Can we just keep to route/fleet news please, this thread will be monitored going forward.