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MK Metro〔(Companies House extract company no 2493030 ) MK Metro Limited formerly Buckinghamshire Road Car Limited〕 was a bus company operating in Milton Keynes from 1997 until 2010. ==History== In 1997, Stagecoach was ordered by the Office of Fair Trading to divest of its operations in Milton Keynes and Huntingdon. This followed an investigation in 1996 into its acquisition of Cambus Holdings which was deemed to have led to an unacceptable monopoly of bus operations in Cambridgeshire, Corby, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Wellingborough, Bedford and Mid Bedfordshire.〔(Stagecoach Holdings plc and Cambus ) Office of Fair Trading 5 June 1996〕 The assets of Milton Keynes Citybus〔(Companies House extract company no 1963446 ) Milton Keynes City Bus Limited〕 were purchased on 2 May 1997 by bus entrepreneur Julian Peddle, using a new company Premier Buses Limited〔(Companies House extract company no 3339369 ) Premier Buses Limited〕 both to operate in Huntingdon (under the Premier Buses brand name) and also as a holding company with which to purchase MK Metro.〔(Changes to competition law and policies adopted 1997 ) Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development〕 The operation was rebranded as MK Metro with a bright yellow and blue livery introduced. In February 2006, the business was purchased by Arriva and integrated into its Arriva Shires & Essex subsidiary.〔(Arriva acquires MK Metro Ltd ) Arriva 13 February 2006〕〔(Arriva acquires MK Metro in £5.6m deal ) ''Bus & Coach Professional'' 15 February 2006〕 The MK Metro brand was retained with a new logo introduced in 2007. On 25 April 2010, the Arriva brand and livery were introduced. Milton Keynes services began to operate under the sub brand of ''MK Star'', and the change of name coincided with a number of controversial service changes. 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「MK Metro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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