Talk:National Bus Company (UK)

Comfort Del Gro

Do they own any ex NBC companies? The three listed in its article are Metroline, Armchair and Thorpes, which weren't part of the company. Lozleader 20:29, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Name

Shouldn't this be at National Bus Company (UK) seem as UK isn't part of the name but a disambiguation? G-Man * 19:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Done. G-Man * 20:04, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:19, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Map images: sources?

The two distribution maps used in this article look a bit out to me based on my (limited) first hand knowledge of the subject. Yorkshire Traction's area (which I grew up in) is listed far too far west in both maps and looks smaller than the Yorkshire Traction article would suggest, similarly the Lincolnshire area is huge and seems to extend too far north - does anyone know/have the source for these two maps? Is it an anomaly of the actual distributions? or are the maps wrong? I'd be happy to recreate both graphics from any accurate source available if appropriate Splateagle (talk) 11:30, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

User Lozleader (talk · contribs) created them and is still active, so I dropped them a note to look in here. MickMacNee (talk) 23:59, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

That would be me... they were based on material in D R Kennedy and A Kennedy, National Bus Company 1981, Oxford, 1982

and Ray Stenning, A National Bus Company Album, Wiveliscombe, 1979 as well as a Buses magazine special edition of the early 1990s. In all cases I think the company areas were rather generalised, based on the old (pre NBC) "area agreement" boundaries which more-or-less chose boundary towns where compny services met and drew straight lines between them. In many cases NBC did nit actulayy operate any services in much of the company area, these being provided by municipals/independents/PTEs.

As far Lincolnshire Road Car is concerned, the northern boundary as shown is the Humber. There would have been Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport in the north east of the area, but I think they wre the major operator in Scunthorpe in the north west.Lozleader (talk) 17:41, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Is there a reason why there's no map of the original companies? It seems to me that the "consolidation" map would benefit from the ability to compare it to what came before.Nick xylas (talk) 20:54, 12 January 2015 (UTC)