Bob Mockford Online         Bus Museum       << Hants/Wilts & Dorset After Hants & Dorset Southampton >>     Home > Bus Museum > After Hants & Dorset   After Hants & Dorset List Back Next Hampshire Bus Solent Blue Line Wilts & Dorset Click any image for details or click Back or Next Bus Museum Contents Ticket Machines Ticket Boxes Change Givers PSV Badges Hants/Wilts & Dorset After Hants & Dorset Southampton King Alfred Winchester Gosport & Fareham Southern Vectis Bristol London Transport Others Bus Books Uniform Odds & Ends Money Links             Hampshire Bus Aug 1983   Oct 1983   Apr 1984   Apr 1984   Nov 1984   May 1985 Mar 1986   Oct 1986   Feb 1987   Jul 1987   Sep 1987     Hampshire Bus was formed from the division of Hants & Dorset on 1st April 1983. In April 1987 it was sold by NBC to Skipburn Ltd, a company formed by Hampshire Bus Co's managing director and the owners of Stagecoach. Solent Blueline Jan 1988   Apr 1988   May 1989   May 1989   Sep 1990     Musterphantom, a subsidiary of Southern Vectis trading as Solent Blue Line, began competing with Hampshire Bus and CityBus in Southampton in May 1987. Hampshire Bus sold their Southampton, Eastleigh and Waterside services to Solent Blue Line in October the same year. Wilts & Dorset May 1983   May 1984   May 1985   May 1986   May 1987     Sep 1987   Oct 1987   Nov 1987   Dec 1987         The Wilts & Dorset Bus Co was another section of the former Hants & Dorset company formed in the April 1983 split. The company was bought by its management in 1987.   Click an image for details First Timetable >>   The new companies quickly introduced their own colours and logos. This was Hampshire Bus Co's prior to the Stagecoach takeover.   The first of these three pads of Hampshire Bus emergency tickets has the National Bus Company logo while the later two have the post NBC version. Otherwise they are the same as the previous Hants & Dorset tickets.     << Hants/Wilts & Dorset Top of the Page Southampton >>     Home > Bus Museum