Title : Devon General As It Was

Author : Nigel Bruce-Robertson

Publisher : Adam Gordon 

Year : 2016 

ISBN : 9781910654101

Description : Approximately 17cm x 24.5cm portrait format softback with laminated card covers and block spine.

124pp on glossy paper and illustrated in both colour and black and white with photographs, map, reproduction of printed ephemera etc.

The author worked for the company from 1963 to 1969 and this is his description of the company at that time.

Wikipedia tells us that "Devon General was the principal bus operator in south Devon from 1919. The name was first used by the Devon General Omnibus and Touring Company which was created in 1919. In 1922 it was purchased by the National Electric Construction Company which merged with British Electric Traction in 1931. Nationalisation in 1969 resulted in 1971 with the company being merged into Western National. In 1983 a new Devon General Limited was created which became the first operating subsidiary of the National Bus Company to be privatised in 1986 when it became the first company of Transit Holdings. It was sold to the Stagecoach Group in 1996 and renamed Stagecoach Devon in 2003."

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