Armchair Passenger Transport was a bus and coach charter operator in London.
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 Preserved Armchair Passenger Transport Leyland Olympian at the 2018 Alton Bus Rally | |
| Parent | ComfortDelGro |
|---|---|
| Founded | 21 November 1960 |
| Ceased operation | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Brentford |
| Service area | Greater London |
| Service type | Coach charter services |
| Fleet | 108 (November 2004) |
| Website | www.armchair.co.uk |
History
editArmchair Passenger Transport was established as a coach operator in November 1960, being sold to EH Mundy in 1974.[1] In June 1990 it became a London Regional Transport contractor when it commenced operating route 260 with 12 Alexander bodied Leyland Olympians and three Leyland Atlanteans. Other routes operated were 65, 117, 190, 209, 237, 485, E2 and E8.
Fleet livery was initially orange and white, before a red and orange livery was introduced to comply with a need for London buses to be 80% red.
In November 2004 the business was sold to ComfortDelGro with 86 buses and 22 coaches.[2][3][4] It initially continued to operate as a separate entity before the bus operations were integrated with Metroline and the coach operations with Westbus UK in 2006.[5][6][7]
References
edit- ^ About Armchair Archived 27 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine Armchair
- ^ History Metroline
- ^ ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited Announcement Archived 17 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine ComfortDelGro
- ^ Armchair bought by Metroline Archived 14 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine Bus & Coach Professional 26 November 2004
- ^ Farewell to Armchair, 'The London Bus Page in Exile', Retrieved 10 August 2018
- ^ "History". Metroline. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- ^ "Our History". Westbus UK. Archived from the original on 10 August 2018. Retrieved 10 August 2018.