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User talk:Geof Sheppard

‎Category:Crosville Motor Services: two different companies
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Hi Geof. Today, I've been sorting some preserved buses and coaches from the UK and now I'm wondering if there's any difference between the vehicles in [[:Category:Crosville Motor Services (Weston-super-Mare)]] and [[:Category:Crosville Motor Services]]. It looks very much like we've got two different categories for one and the same business, so I thought I'd ask you since you created one of them. [[User:De728631|De728631]] ([[User talk:De728631|talk]]) 22:08, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Geof. Today, I've been sorting some preserved buses and coaches from the UK and now I'm wondering if there's any difference between the vehicles in [[:Category:Crosville Motor Services (Weston-super-Mare)]] and [[:Category:Crosville Motor Services]]. It looks very much like we've got two different categories for one and the same business, so I thought I'd ask you since you created one of them. [[User:De728631|De728631]] ([[User talk:De728631|talk]]) 22:08, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

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:No, there're two different companies. The orignal Crosville Motor Services operated in Wales and north west England during the twentieth century. After deregulation the core business in Wales was bought by Arriva and dropped the Crosville name to become [[:Category:Arriva Buses Wales]]. More recently a bus enthusiast set up a small coach hire business in Weston-super-Mare and aquired the rights to the Crosville Motor Services name. Things get complicated because one of the strands of his business is a fleet of heritage buses which are available for hire. And this includes some that were originally operated by the original Crosville, hence they get categorised with both companies — [[:Category:Crosville Motor Services]] for the livery and [[:Category:Crosville Motor Services (Weston-super-Mare)]] for the operator. There is a full list of the vehicles concerned on English Wikipedia at [[en:Crosvile Motor Services (Weston-super-Mare)]]. [[User:Geof Sheppard|Geof Sheppard]] ([[User talk:Geof Sheppard#top|talk]]) 08:22, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

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