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- ↑ If you can't beat 'em Commercial Motor 9 December 1966
- ↑ Venture Transport sells to NBC Commercial Motor 8 May 1970
- ↑ Companies House extract company no 2019669 The Venture Transport Company Limited
- ↑ Brown, Stewart J (November 1995). Buses in Britain 2: The Mid-Nineties. Capital Transport. ISBN 1-85414-181-3.
