AMK Group

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AMK Group
Bus and Coach company
Founded1973
FounderKevin & Angela Moger
Headquarters
Passfield, Liphook
,

United Kingdom
Area served
 Hampshire
Surrey
West Sussex
ServicesWheel-chair accessible mini-coaches, private hire, scheduled buses
Website www.amkxl.com

The AMK Group is a large mini coach and executive vehicle hire operator based in Liphook, Hampshire. It was founded in 1973 by Kevin and Angela Moger. [1]

Liphook village in United Kingdom

Liphook is a large village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 4.1 miles (6.6 km) west of Haslemere, bypassed by the A3 road, and lies on the Hampshire/West Sussex border. It is in the civil parish of Bramshott and Liphook, which also includes Bramshott and Hammer Bottom.

Hampshire County of England

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England. The county town, with city status, is Winchester, a frequent seat of the Royal Court before any fixed capital, in late Anglo-Saxon England. After the metropolitan counties and Greater London, Hampshire is the most populous ceremonial county in the United Kingdom. Its two largest settlements, Southampton and Portsmouth, are administered separately as unitary authorities and the rest of the area forms the administrative county, which is governed by Hampshire County Council.

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It specialises in long-term contract hire for the public sector, run on behalf of local authorities and the National Health Service. [2]

National Health Service publicly funded healthcare systems within the United Kingdom

The NHS in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and the affiliated Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland were established together in 1948 as one of the major social reforms following the Second World War. The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, apart from dental treatment and optical care.

As at October 2013 AMK operate 140 vehicles making it one of the largest mini coach operators in the United Kingdom. It also provides chauffeur driven mini coach hire and operates Dial-A-Bus services in and around Liphook as well as five conventional bus services. [1] [3] AMK also provides vehicle servicing and MOT tests.

MOT test Mandatory periodical technical checkup for motor vehicles in the United Kingdom

The MOT test is an annual test of vehicle safety, roadworthiness aspects and exhaust emissions required in the United Kingdom for most vehicles over three years old used on any way defined as a road in the Road Traffic Act 1988; it does not apply only to highways but includes other places available for public use, which are not highways. In Northern Ireland the equivalent requirement applies after four years. The requirement does not apply to vehicles used only on various small islands with no convenient connection "to a road in any part of Great Britain"; no similar exemption is listed at the beginning of 2014 for Northern Ireland, which has a single inhabited island, Rathlin.

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References

  1. 1 2 History Archived 19 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine AMK Group
  2. ↑ Smith, Matt (28 December 2006). "AMK geared up for future with buy-out". Southern Daily Echo .
  3. ↑ Bus Services Archived 19 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine AMK Group
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