Geldards Coaches

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Geldards Coaches
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in September 2006
ParentTerry Geldard
Founded1991
DefunctSeptember 2017
Headquarters Farnley
Service area West Yorkshire
Service typeBus & coach services
Hubs Leeds
Bradford
Fleet157 (July 2015)
Website www.geldardscoaches.co.uk

Geldards Coaches was a privately owned bus and coach company operating services around Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, as well as nationwide. It operated regular cross city urban services in Leeds on a commercial basis. A large proportion of its work was coach trips as well as private hire and school contracts.

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History

Geldards Coaches was a family-run business. It was founded in 1991 by Terry Geldard, who owned the company. Between 1991 and 2002 the company was run in conjunction with a longer established greengrocers. The first bus routes began operation in 1995 under the Bigfoot Buses name, but this operation was sold to Taylors Coaches in September 1998. Local bus service operation restarted in 2008. [1]

Owing to a fire at their depot in August 2015 Geldards Coaches went into administration in September 2015 and subsequently ceased trading. [2]

Fleet

In 2014 the fleet consisted of 70 vehicles of which three had been acquired new in the early 2000s whilst one was a heritage AEC Routemaster. [3]

In July 2015 the fleet consisted of 157 buses and coaches.

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References

  1. ↑ Lidstone, John G (February 2008). "Fleet in Focus: Geldards Coaches". Buses (635): 60.
  2. ↑ Ward, Eleanor (17 September 2015). "Yorkshire coach company enters administration". Business Sale Report. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Martin, Stuart; Potter, Bill. English Bus Handbook: Notable Independents (4 ed.). British Bus Publishing. pp. 75–76. ISBN   9781904875741.
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