Reflections on Privatisation

Creative liveries flowed from the years immediately before and after deregulation in 1986. They represented a new optimism in the then newly privatised bus industry, as it symbolically swept away old greens and reds along with its old structures.

In their turn, these schemes fell to the acquisitive groups we have today.

Reflected along the glass of a First Group Wright Eclipse Gemini is a much earlier Bristol VR in post-privatisation Eastern National livery, an undertaking bought first by its management in December 1986 and subsequently sold to First Group.

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