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London Country North East〔(Companies House extract company no 2005563 ) London Country Bus (North East) Limited〕 was a bus operator in South East England and London. It was formed from the split of London Country Bus Services in 1986 and operated a fleet of around 350 buses from six garages, with its headquarters located in Hatfield. The company was the last subsidiary of National Bus Company to be privatised, being sold to the AJS Group on 22 April 1988. Later in the same year it was split into County Bus & Coach and Sovereign Bus & Coach. ==Formation and early history== In the run-up to deregulation, London Country Bus Services (LCBS) was broken into four smaller companies on 7 September 1986.〔(Out on its own ) ''Commercial Motor'' 6 December 1986 page 54〕 Three hundred and fifty buses,〔 the garages at Hatfield, Hertford, Stevenage, Harlow, St Albans and the isolated base at Grays formed the new London Country North East (LCNE) company.〔 Early difficulties with staff conditions and wages, which the company was attempting to simplify from the complex contracts arranged by LCBS, led to strike action by staff in February 1988. Performance levels on contracted routes were already below those expected by the local councils who had awarded LCNE the contracts, and by London Regional Transport. Following the strike three of the company's London contracts (routes 292, 298 and 313) were terminated and awarded to independents.〔〔(London Country North East loses three routes ) ''Commercial Motor'' 25 February 1988〕 On 22 April 1988, London Country North East was sold by the National Bus Company, the last of 72 subsidiaries to be privatised.〔(NBC sale is completed with London Country NE ) ''Commercial Motor'' 7 April 1988 page 16〕〔(Hansard ) House of Commons 18 April 1988〕 The buyer was Alan Stephenson's AJS Group,〔(Companies House extract company no 2188825 ) Blazefield Travel Group Limited ex AJS Travel Group Limited ex AJS Holdings Limited〕 which had been formed by the management buyout of West Yorkshire Road Car Company.〔 As part of the sale LCNE's property was bought by Parkdale Holdings and leased back to the company; some was sold for redevelopment, while the remainder was later sold back to LCNE. Parkdale Holdings later went out of business having changed their name to Pavilion Leisure.〔 A month later LCNE was banned from registering new services for six months by the Traffic Commissioner for failing to operate service in accordance with registrations made. Following poor financial results, AJS decided to split the company in two.〔 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「London Country North East」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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