Bus Museum - After Hants & Dorset After Hants & Dorset List     Click any image for details   Bus Museum Contents Ticket Machines Ticket Boxes Change Givers PSV Badges Hants/Wilts & Dorset After Hants & Dorset Southampton King Alfred Winchester Gosport & Fareham Southern Vectis Bristol London Transport Others Bus Books Uniform Odds & Ends Money Links             Hampshire Bus May 1983   August 1983   October 1983   April 1984   April 1984   November 1984 May 1985   March 1986   October 1986   February 1987   July 1987   September 1987 Hampshire Bus was formed from the division of Hants & Dorset on 1st April 1983. In April 1987 it was sold by NBC to Skipburn Ltd, a company formed by Hampshire Bus Co's managing director and the owners of Stagecoach. Wilts & Dorset May 1983   May 1984   May 1985   May 1986   May 1987   September 1987   October 1987   November 1987   December 1987     The Wilts & Dorset Bus Co was another section of the former Hants & Dorset company formed in the April 1983 split. The company was bought by its management in 1987. Solent Blue Line January 1988   April 1988   May 1989   May 1989   September 1990   Musterphantom, a subsidiary of Southern Vectis trading as Solent Blue Line, began competing with Hampshire Bus and CityBus in Southampton in May 1987. Hampshire Bus sold their Southampton, Eastleigh and Waterside services to Solent Blue Line in October the same year. Click an image for details First Timetable >>   The new companies quickly introduced their own colours and logos. This was Hampshire Bus Co's prior to the Stagecoach takeover.   The first of these three pads of Hampshire Bus emergency tickets has the National Bus Company logo while the later two have the post NBC version. Otherwise they are the same as the previous Hants & Dorset tickets.     << Hants/Wilts & Dorset Top of the Page Southampton >>     Home > Bus Museum