Letter from James Amos, Scottish Motor Traction, Edinburgh to R B Dick of the Central SMT, Motherwell - 1948
In the midst of accounting for the nationalisation of the Scottish bus companies under the wing of the SMT Group there seems to be an issue as to the value of certain second hand vehicles that has caught the attention of the formidable James Amos, who having started his own bus company in the Borders in the 1920s worked his way up to Chairman of the Scottish Bus Group by the 1960s. Mr Dick was similarly of a bus family who worked their way up. The 'Mr Durrant' referred to is the Chief Mechanical Engineer of Lonodn Transport, similarly nationalised in 1948, and who appears to have been brought north of the border to ascertain the value of buses and stock with regard to compensation as part of the takeover.
Letter from James Amos, Scottish Motor Traction, Edinburgh to R B Dick of the Central SMT, Motherwell - 1948
In the midst of accounting for the nationalisation of the Scottish bus companies under the wing of the SMT Group there seems to be an issue as to the value of certain second hand vehicles that has caught the attention of the formidable James Amos, who having started his own bus company in the Borders in the 1920s worked his way up to Chairman of the Scottish Bus Group by the 1960s. Mr Dick was similarly of a bus family who worked their way up. The 'Mr Durrant' referred to is the Chief Mechanical Engineer of Lonodn Transport, similarly nationalised in 1948, and who appears to have been brought north of the border to ascertain the value of buses and stock with regard to compensation as part of the takeover.