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Liverpool and Llandudno to London via Taylor's Market Square car showroom in Chester and to operate a central London travel agency to advertise those services and the other coach services of the respective companies. This express coach service to London commenced on 14 April 1930. Crosville had also started an express coach service between Liverpool and London in 1929, and by 1933 tried with All-British Travels Ltd to co-ordinate the Liverpool to London service, thereby complying with the North Western Traffic Commissioner's decree to reduce the duplication of that service. A joint timetable was worked on but problems co-ordinating the service proved impossible to surmount. In January 1933 the coach operator, Red & White Services of Chepstow in South Wales, purchased All-British Travels Ltd and in September of that year the remaining All-British Line express coach service between Liverpool and London operated by Taylor ceased. Taylor continued in the coach excursion business and car trade in Chester up to 1972.
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Travels Ltd was formed by coach operators George Taylor of Chester, Alfred Harding of Birkenhead and J.W. Scott of Edinburgh, with sleeping partner Evan R. Davies, a solicitor in Pwllheli. Under the fleet name of 'All-British Line' the initial intention was to run express coach
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Bristol double-deckers had become the standard fleet purchase for all Tilling/BET fleets, which allowed the company to serve the post-war boom until 1950, when traffic began to fall again thanks to the increase in the number of private cars. The combination of this, plus the
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Arriva Cymru Limited formerly Crosville Wales Limited
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805:More First businesses sold to Stagecoach
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1017:Jenkins, Martin & Charles Roberts;
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965:; Transport Publishing Company; 1987;
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1521:Manchester Community Transport
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1075:Crosville 3 – The Successors
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766:Arriva Buses Wales – History
671:Two more NBC operations sold
344:British Transport Commission
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1516:Lancashire United Transport
778:Arriva North West – History
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2095:Southdown Motor Services
2015:Cavendish Motor Services
1952:Trathens Travel Services
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1786:North Birmingham Busways
1561:Red & White Services
1506:John Fishwick & Sons
1466:Crosville Motor Services
1446:Bluebird Bus & Coach
847:11 November 2013 at the
546:Potteries Motor Traction
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1811:Stevensons of Uttoxeter
1806:South Notts Bus Company
1771:Glossopdale Bus Company
1638:Busways Travel Services
1591:Yelloway Motor Services
1033:Crosville on Merseyside
1019:The Heyday of Crosville
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725:18 January 2012 at the
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634:22 February 1986 page 3
328:Bristol-chassised buses
143:more precise citations.
2110:Thames Valley Traction
2075:New Enterprise Coaches
1648:Durham Travel Services
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1184:Stagecoach South Wales
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935:75 Years of Crosville
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686:Drawlane snaps up NEG
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406:National Bus Company
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2460:First Scotland East
2125:Yellow Bus Services
2090:Southampton Citybus
2065:Marchwood Motorways
2010:Boro'line Maidstone
1471:Finglands Coachways
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1063:; NBC Books; 1997;
1021:; Ian Allan; 2009;
644:Drawlane splits CMS
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1620:North East England
1501:Jim Stones Coaches
1486:Glenvale Transport
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1942:Southern National
1821:Travel Merry Hill
1816:Travel de Courcey
1801:Probus Management
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1718:Yorkshire Terrier
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1668:OK Motor Services
1643:Cleveland Transit
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