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Kings Lynn isn’t the only divestment made by First

Alan Eatwell, Managing director, Metrobus Ltd, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10
06 May 2011
 

In Business Briefing, you describe the sale of First’s Kings Lynn operation to Norfolk Green as “the first time that FirstGroup has ever disposed of a bus operation”.

This overlooks Metrobus’s acquisition of their Orpington garage in December 2007 and the relocation of their 35 buses and TUPE transfer of just shy of 100 drivers to our depots at Orpington and Croydon.

Their Faraday Way garage was subsequently demolished, though the site remained in our ownership and...

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