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Transdev Blazefield〔(Companies House extract company no 2605399 ) Transdev Blazefield Limited formerly Blazefield Holdings Limited〕 is a bus group in England. It owns six bus companies in the Lancashire and Yorkshire regions. Formed in 1991, since January 2006 it has been a subsidiary of Transdev. ==History== In 1991 Blazefield Travel〔(Companies House extract company no 2188825 ) Blazefield Travel Group Limited〕 was formed when Alan Stephenson's AJS Group sold seven bus operations with 300 buses and 12 depots to two of its directors, Giles Fearnley and Stuart Wilde in a management buyout.〔(AJS sells remaining bus firms ) ''Commercial Motor'' 8 August 1991 page 16〕〔(First for Fearnley in UK Bus move ) ''Bus & Coach Professional'' 26 January 2011〕 At its inception there were seven operating subsidiaries:〔 *Harrogate & District *Harrogate Independent Travel *Keighley & District *Sovereign Bus & Coach *Sovereign Buses *Welwyn Hatfield Line *Yorkshire Coastliner AJS Group had purchased West Yorkshire Road Car and London Country North East from National Bus Company in 1988.〔 Prior to the sale the latter was broken in two, Country Bus & Coach and Sovereign Bus & Coach; only the latter becoming part of Blazefield. West Yorkshire was broken into its six depots, Leeds, Bradford, York, Malton, Harrogate and Keighley. Leeds and Bradford passed to Rider Group on 13 August 1989, which owned Yorkshire Rider, while the remaining four depots became York City & District, Yorkshire Coastliner, Harrogate & District and Keighley & District respectively. The York operation was taken by Rider Group on 29 July 1990.〔(Rider takes control ) ''Commercial Motor'' 26 July 1990 page 19〕 Expansion soon followed with the purchase in November 1991 of Cambridge Coach Services from AJS with 14 buses, and Watford based Lucketts. Ingfield of Settle was purchased in April 1992 and was merged with Keighley-based Northern Rose to form Ingfield-Northern Rose. In 1993 Harrogate Independent Travel, which had been set up as an independent in 1986 by a number of West Yorkshires Harrogate drivers to challenge their employer, was absorbed into Harrogate & District. In 1994 Blazefield purchased Borehamwood Travel Services, with 43 vehicles, 22 of which were AEC Routemasters for London Buses route 13 (Golders Green - Aldwych). It was renamed London Sovereign. By this time the group owned 380 vehicles. In 1994 Ingfield-Northern Rose bought Whaites Coaches of Settle. At the same time Sovereign was locked in battle with Universitybus. Blazefield was also supposedly behind Petlen Travel, trading as Noddy Bus, using old Sovereign buses. In 1996, Harrogate & District grew again when it acquired Cowie Group's United operation in Ripon. In 1998 Huntingdon & District was created with the operations of Premier Buses, owned by Julian Peddle, but was sold to Cavalier of Sutton Bridge in 2004. Cambridge Coach Services was sold to National Express owned Airlinks in 1999. On 15 April 2001, four garages and 230 buses were purchased from Stagecoach in Lancashire.〔(Stagecoach sells some North-West Operations for £13 Million ) Stagecoach 26 April 2001〕 Two new subsidiaries were formed, Burnley & Pendle with depots in Burnley and Pendle and Lancashire United with depots in Blackburn, Bolton and Clitheroe. Bolton was quickly sold on to Blue Bus of Horwich. Between 2002 and 2005, Blazefield withdrew from its operations in south England. Sovereign London was sold to Transdev in 2002, the Huntingdon & District business to Cavalier Travel in 2003, and the St Albans operation sold to Centrebus in 2004.〔 In early 2005 the Competition Commission cleared Blazefield's deal to sell what was left of Sovereign to Arriva Shires & Essex.〔(The proposed acquisition by Arriva plc of the business of Sovereign Bus & Coach Company Ltd ) Competition Commission December 2004〕 In January 2006, Blazefield Group was sold to Transdev with 305 buses.〔(A new stop for Blazefield ) ''Yorkshire Post'' 9 January 2006〕 In 2007 Transdev Blazefield purchased Accrington Transport, Blackburn Transport and Northern Blue. In 2008, Transdev Blazefield purchased two bus operations in York: City Sightseeing franchise Top Line Travel, and Veolia Transport's bus operation, both based in Fulford. 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「Transdev Blazefield」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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