Stagecoach Manchester and Wigan

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RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(22/08/2014 09:00)Mayneway Wrote:  Technically Bluebird didn't go out of business. The owner had other business comittments that took him away from running things at Middleton and just like with Maynes several years earlier his children wernt interested in the bus business, although it's no secret the business wasn't running at its best it was bought as a going concern. Stagecoach didn't get Bluebird that cheap either where as JPT was handed to them on a plate.

I am happy to stand corrected on that. I had seen the sale of some of the more modern buses, and their replacement by some much older vehicles, and seen the reports of problems with their fuel supplier, and jumped to the wrong conclusion.

Having said that, there was clearly more value in the Bluebird business, with a more modern fleet, and some good routes. I am not sure waht value there really was in JPT at the end of the day.