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Yorkshire Traction〔(Companies House extract company no 72962 ) Yorkshire Traction Company Limited formerly Mexborough & Swinton Traction Company Limited formerly Barnsley & District Electric Traction Company Limited〕 was a bus operator in Yorkshire that operated from 1902 until 2005. ==History== In March 1902 the Barnsley & District Electric Traction Company Limited was formed. It operated trams around the Barnsley area until around 1930. In 1928, prior to the trams being withdrawn, the company was renamed from the Barnsley & District Traction Company Limited (the 'electric' part of the name being dropped some years earlier). The company was affectionately referred to as 'Tracky'. In October 1968, Yorkshire Traction purchased Mexborough & Swinton Traction Company〔(Companies House extract company no 523376 ) Arriva North West Limited formerly North Western Road Car Company Limited formerly Mexborough & Swinton Traction Company Limited〕 and County Motors.〔(Yorkshire Traction absorbs local fleets ) ''Commercial Motor'' 25 October 1968 page 33〕〔(Yorkshire Traction buys County Motors ) ''Commercial Motor'' 24 January 1969 page 27〕 As part of the privatisation of the National Bus Company, Yorkshire Transit was sold in January 1987 to a management buyout.〔(NBC sells 'Tracky' ) ''Commercial Motor'' 7 February 1987 page 18〕〔(YTC set to win Strathtay ) ''Commercial Motor'' 16 May 1991 page 20〕 The business subsequently expanded through purchasing other operators including: *Ridings Travel〔(In Brief ) ''Commercial Motor'' 19 January 1989 page 14〕 *Barnsley & District formed in July 1990 when Yorkshire Traction bought the bus business of Tom Jowitt Travel, Wombwell〔(Companies House extract company no 2503122 ) Barnsley & District Traction Company Limited〕〔(Tom Jowitt sells its bus business ) ''Commercial Motor'' 2 August 1990 page 16〕 *Lincolnshire RoadCar Company〔〔(NBC sells off Lincs Road Car ) ''Commercial Motor'' 4 February 1988 page 16〕 *Lincoln City Transport *Yorkshire Terrier *Andrews (Sheffield) (merged with Yorkshire Terrier in 1998) *Sheffield Omnibus (merged with Andrews (Sheffield) in 1996) *South Riding (merged with Andrews (Sheffield) in 1995) *Strathtay Scottish in May 1991〔 *Meffans Coaches (a subsidiary of Strathtay) *London Traveller 35% shareholding, sold in to Thorpes in October 2001 In December 2005, Yorkshire Traction was sold to Stagecoach Yorkshire.〔(Stagecoach buys Yorkshire traction ) ''Bus & Coach Professional'' 15 December 2005〕〔(About Stagecoach Sheffield ) Stagecoach〕 In May 2008, Stagecoach sold its Huddersfield operations to Centrebus Holdings and is now operated by Arriva Yorkshire as Yorkshire Tiger, while the part of the business remaining with Stagecoach was renamed Stagecoach Sheffield.〔(Arriva unleashes its Yorkshire Tiger ) ''Bus & Coach Professional'' 9 October 2013〕 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「Yorkshire Traction」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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