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East Yorkshire Motor Services〔(Companies House extract company no 216628 ) East Yorkshire Motor Services Limited〕 (EYMS) is a bus and coach operator operating throughout Kingston upon Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, the North Yorkshire coast and the North York Moors. In and around Scarborough, EYMS operates as Scarborough & District Motor Services.〔(Companies House extract company no 2133854 ) Scarborough & District Motor Services Limited〕 ==History== EYMS was originally two companies, Lee & Beaulah, set up by Ernest John Lee, and Hull & District Motor Services, set up by HA Harvey. In 1926 British Electric Traction bought the two and formed EYMS to take them over.〔 In 1968 BET was sold to the Tilling Group and in 1969 Tilling and BET were absorbed by the National Bus Company (NBC). The livery of East Yorkshire was dark blue and primrose until 1972, when it briefly changed to blue with white relief in the NBC corporate layout, but soon this was replaced by NBC poppy red.〔(History ) East Yorkshire Motor Services〕 In the lead up to privatisation in 1987, EYMS's fleet, which had dropped to 200 vehicles and shared management with Lincolnshire Road Car, suddenly started to grow again. United Automobile Services' depots in Scarborough and Pickering were transferred to EYMS and rebranded Scarborough & District.〔(Companies House extract company no 2133854 ) Scarborough and District Motor Services Limited〕〔(WRAC chases United ) ''Commercial Motor'' 10 September 1987 page 25〕 In February 1987 EYMS was sold in a management buyout led by seven managers.〔(Companies House extract company no 2065145 ) EYMS Group Limited〕 EYMS began to expand, purchasing many of the independent operators in its local area, including Connor & Graham,〔(Companies House extract company no 546796 ) Connor and Graham Limited〕 Cottingham Mini Coaches〔(Companies House extract company no 2142740 ) Whittle Coach & Bus Limited formerly East Yorkshire Railways Limited formerly EYMS Yesteryear Travel Limited formerly Cottingham Mini Coaches Limited〕 and Primrose Valley Coaches.〔(Companies House extract company no 2123369 ) EYMS Bus & Coach Training Limited formerly Primrose Valley Coaches Limited〕 The liveries at privatisation were silver/blue, NBC poppy red and NBC's minibus livery of silver, blue and red. The red buses soon started receiving red/grey livery. The Hardwick's of Scarborough fleet was purchased from Wallace Arnold, Wallace Arnold's last bus company. In Hull some AEC Routemasters entered service in traditional pre-NBC EYMS blue to compete with Kingston upon Hull City Transport, and it suffered competition in Hull, Bridlington and Scarborough from Applebys. In 1999 Applebys closed its Scarborough base. Soon afterwards it went into receivership. Its first expansion outside its home area was in 1992 with the purchase of Finglands Coachways of Rusholme, Manchester.〔(Companies House extract company no 243051 ) Finglands Coachways Limited〕 In 1995 the original Stagecoach Manchester operation was added (not to be confused with the present day Stagecoach Manchester, against which Finglands is in competition on South Manchester routes). The next expansion outside Yorkshire was the purchase of Whittle Bus & Coach of Kidderminster in January 2004.〔(EYMS to buy Whittle ) ''Bus & Coach Professional'' 9 January 2004〕 On 1 August 2013, FirstGroup announced that subject to regulatory approval by the Office of Fair Trading, it had agreed to purchase the bus operations of Finglands Coachways. The sale included the lease of Finglands's depot in Rusholme, routes and approximately 100 members of staff, but no buses.〔(FirstGroup plc Agree To Acquire Finglands Bus Operations In Manchester ) FirstGroup 1 August 2013〕〔(Jobs saved as famous bus firm gears up for takeover ) ''Manchester Evening News'' 2 August 2013〕 The deal was approved in January 2014 with First Greater Manchester taking over on 9 February 2014.〔(End of the road for Finglands as takeover deal reached ) ''Manchester Evening News'' 27 January 2014〕〔(First given OFT approval to acquire Finglands bus operations in Manchester ) FirstGroup 28 January 2014〕〔(First take over Finglands bus services ) Transport for Greater Manchester 7 February 2014〕 In October 2013 EYMS sold the Fingland's coach charter business to Bullocks Coaches.〔(EYMS sell Finglands' coaches ) ''Bus & Coach Professional'' 10 October 2013〕 In order to cut costs and improve service reliability the depot at Driffield closed at the end of service on 31 May 2014. In December 2014, the Whittle coach business was sold to Johnsons Coach & Bus Travel with nine coaches.〔(Johnsons to acquire Whittle's coach operation ) ''Bus & Coach Buyer'' 18 December 2014〕〔(Johnsons New Owners of Whittles ) Johnsons Coach & Bus Travel〕〔(Henley's Johnsons to buy Whittles ) ''Route One'' 18 December 2014〕 The National Express services were taken over by National Express subsidiary company, and all the Whittle local bus registrations cancelled from 5 January 2015.〔(Whittle Coach & Bus Future ) Whittle Coach & Bus 16 December 2014〕〔(Johnsons acquires Whittle from EYMS Group ) ''Transport News Brief'' 18 December 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「East Yorkshire Motor Services」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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