Parent | Mayne family |
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Founded | 1920 |
Headquarters | Clayton |
Service area | Greater Manchester Warrington |
Service type | Coach operator |
Depots | 2 |
Fleet | 51 (September 2013) |
Website | www.mayne.co.uk |
Mayne Coaches [1] is a coach operator with depots in Manchester and Warrington. Administrators were appointed to the business, following an insolvency notice issued on 14 February 2022. [2] Mayne Coaches now operates under the Go Goodwins Group of Eccles, Manchester. The company has no connection to Maynes Coaches, Buckie Scotland.
The company was formed by Arthur Mayne before the First World War, originally delivering furniture from its shop in Bradford, Manchester. In the 1920s Maynes branched out into coach excursions, running trips to the coast and to Buxton. They would later expand to operate trips to football matches and race meetings. By the start of the 1930s, the company had decided to concentrate on passenger transport and would continue to grow during the 1930s moving from Beswick to its present headquarters in Clayton. [3]
Coach services ceased when the Second World War broke out and struggled to recover after the war ended, with the costs of fuel, labour and vehicles rising and passenger numbers dropped due to the increase of cars on the road. During the 1960s, the company received numerous take over offers from Manchester Corporation Transport. By resisting the offers, the company was able to grow steadily and would increase its services in the 1980s. [3]
In 1982 Barry Cooper Coaches of Warrington was purchased with 20 coaches by members of the Mayne family. Although this was originally a separate business to Mayne, the Mayne name and red and cream livery were soon adopted. In 1989 the coach operations in Manchester expanded into the Fairclough Street depot. In 1998 Barry Cooper Coaches was renamed Mayne Coaches, and moved to its present site. [3]
Over the years the company has grown from an initial purpose built coach in 1925 and new bus in 1929, with expansion coming through acquisition of local bus and coach operators, and through purchases of new buses and coaches. The company resisted numerous attempts at nationalisation due to a licensing agreement made in 1930 with Manchester Corporation regarding bus service provision. [3]
In January 2008 Mayne's bus division was sold to Stagecoach Manchester. [4] [5] [6] The Ashton New Road bus depot was sold to supermarket chain Aldi, which commenced demolition in December 2007. The bus fleet then briefly operated from the Fairclough Street coach depot, supplemented with temporary parking at the adjacent Manchester Velodrome. After obtaining Office of Fair Trading clearance on 10 January 2008, the sale of the fleet and registrations was completed on 21 January 2008. [7] [8]
The company remains as a coach operator, and was under the ownership of Stephen Mayne until he died in July 2012. The company now operates under the Go Goodwins Group LTD, Eccles, Manchester.
Bus services were operated by a separate legal entity, A Mayne & Son Ltd., [9] mainly in East Manchester, with the majority of services running between Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester via Ashton New Road.
Following the sale, the 37 bus fleet was transferred to Stagecoach Manchester's Hyde Road depot and repainted into Stagecoach livery.
As of September 2013, the fleet consisted of 51 coaches. [10]
Mayne Coaches operate out of depots in Clayton and Warrington.
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