| The National Bus Company established five National Travel companies to exploit - or fail - as coach companies. It was a key role of the Central Activities Group to generate as much revenue as possible from the costly coach fleet it had inherited from the Tilling and BET groups.
It made some mistakes - National Charter and, indeed, the National Travel companies themselves. But it showed the way ahead for one product that had previously been treated as the poor cousin of tours and day trips: National Express long-distance coaching. Given its head after deregulation in 1980 it established itself as the most successful company to emerge from NBC with worldwide interests and a FTSE 100 listing. |
Don Everall, Wolverhampton 154 EJW after sale to a Worcestershire operator, Jones of upper Sapey. It was a Thames 570E with Plaxton Embassy II bodywork. 640x425 071.075_235.jpg 1981-02-17 00:00:00 |
Don Everall, Wolverhampton JDA 577K with National Travel Midlands 640x425 071.038_26.jpg 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
Don Everall, Wolverhampton RDA 811F 640x425 071.068_57.jpg 1966-06-04 00:00:00 |
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Everall, Wolverhampton LUK 586E with a marching band at the world championships in Stourport on Severn 640x407 071.1045C_566.jpg 2008-05-10 20:31:00 |
Worthington National EHD 522F 640x434 109.053S_1-137.jpg 2000-01-01 00:00:00 |
