Hants and Dorset Motor Services Ltd : from Guide to Poole Harbour, c1930
An advert from the nicely produced official guide to Poole Harbour issued by the Poole Harbour Commissioners. The Hants & Dorset Motor Services operated the services and vehicle types described in the advert and had adopted the name in 1920 when the 1916 Bournemouth & District Company, a BAT subsidiary, had acquired Trade Cars of Southampton. In the same year the Tilling Company acquired an interest.
In common with many such bus operators the 1920s were boom years and in 1929, following legislative changes that allowed the railway companies to acquire shares in bus companies, the Southern Railway became a part owner. This meant that in 1948 the company became partially nationalised - in 1949 when the Tilling group (who had acquired BAT's shares in 1942) sold out to the Government Hants & Dorset became fully nationalised and in 1969 passed to the NBC. The company was dismembered in the run up to privatisation.
Hants and Dorset Motor Services Ltd : from Guide to Poole Harbour, c1930
An advert from the nicely produced official guide to Poole Harbour issued by the Poole Harbour Commissioners. The Hants & Dorset Motor Services operated the services and vehicle types described in the advert and had adopted the name in 1920 when the 1916 Bournemouth & District Company, a BAT subsidiary, had acquired Trade Cars of Southampton. In the same year the Tilling Company acquired an interest.
In common with many such bus operators the 1920s were boom years and in 1929, following legislative changes that allowed the railway companies to acquire shares in bus companies, the Southern Railway became a part owner. This meant that in 1948 the company became partially nationalised - in 1949 when the Tilling group (who had acquired BAT's shares in 1942) sold out to the Government Hants & Dorset became fully nationalised and in 1969 passed to the NBC. The company was dismembered in the run up to privatisation.