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Wallace Arnold〔(Companies House extract company no 177672 ) Wallace Arnold Tours Limited〕 was one of the UK's largest holiday motorcoach tour operators. ==History== Wallace Arnold was founded in 1912 and was named after its founders Wallace Cunningham and Arnold Crowe. In February 1969, the Evan Evans tour business in London was purchased.〔(Evan Evans sells out ) ''Commercial Motor'' 14 February 1969 page 33〕 In the late 1970s, Wallace Arnold commenced operating services under the Euroways banner to Europe.〔(Wallace Arnold's Spanish 'Greyhound' ) ''Commercial Motor'' 27 January 1978 page 28〕〔(Volvo to Moscow ) ''Commercial Motor'' 2 February 1979 page 24〕〔(WA's new timetable ) ''Commercial Motor'' 22 March 1980 page 24〕 By 1980 it operated 290 coaches from its headquarters in Leeds,〔 and owned a subsidiary based in Devon. When coach services were deregulated by the Transport Act 1980 in October 1980, Wallace Arnold was a founding member of the British Coachways consortium that competed with the state-owned National Express.〔(BC starts on October 6 ) ''Commercial Motor'' 27 September 1980 page 24〕 It left after a year and briefly ran its own service from London to Torbay.〔(Too many seats go west ) ''Commercial Motor'' 30 January 1982 page 13〕 The business was owned by the Barr & Wallace Arnold Trust.〔(Family feud at Barr & Wallace Arnold ) ''The Independent'' 15 October 1994〕 In 1997, Wallace Arnold was sold to 3i.〔(Coach duo try to revive merger deal ) ''The Telegraph'' 24 January 2005〕 In April 2005, Wallace Arnold merged with Shearings to become WA Shearings.〔〔(UK coach groups geared for merger ) ''BBC News'' 1 February 2005〕〔(Merger clearance for WA Shearings ) ''Bus & Coach Professional'' 1 April 2005〕 In 2007 the Wallace Arnold name was dropped and now the company is known as Shearings Holidays.〔(Coach operator rebrands as Shearings Holidays ) ''Travel Weekly'' 13 September 2007〕 The merger included eight travel shops in Yorkshire, rebranded from Wallace Arnold Travel to WA Shearings. These kept the WA Shearings name until 2010, when they reverted to their original Wallace Arnold Travel name.〔(Shearings revives the Wallace Arnold brand ) ''TTG Digital'' 29 April 2010〕 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「Wallace Arnold」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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