Horseshoe Coaches

VISIONS OF GRANDEUR

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HORSESHOE COACHES LTD

This comprehensive book entails not only the substantial history of the coach company but also other coach businesses that were linked either by area or alternatively the interchange of work such as Sampson Coaches and Travel, Grey Green Coaches, Tricentral, and takeovers etc. It also discusses the 1980 deregulation transport act that totally transformed both bus and coach businesses, not only for the good but also in some cases for the bad.

British Coachways and National Express being discussed in one particular chapter amongst others as well as the 80's tourist market. People's rememberance of the The Horseshoe Group of Companies - Horseshoe - Lee's Luxury - Modern Super. Book = softbound, British royal in size, 220 pages, colour plus black and white images, approximately 50% text. £25.00, also discount on purchasing more than one.

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THE GOLDEN ERA

Memories of Bygone Decades to 1980

Incl The Horseshoe Coach Group

Anyone who has seen the images or physically the coaches that the Horseshoe Coach Group bought in and operated after the 1980 Express Deregulation Act of October that year, surely thought those forthcoming years would have been "The Golden Era", alas nothing could have been further from the truth.

For most companies associated with the said industry of moving the public on the road, that Act gave the free for all with "no holds barred" attitude and unprecedented licence - mainly free as well - to do as they wished with the minimalistic restrictions, be it good and bad. For the likes of Yelloway Motor Services and Grey Green Coaches, both companies heavily mentioned within this book and both in my estimation coming out badly from it, but some may disagree somewhat concerning Horseshoe's North London neighbours. However, we are finishing up to the end of 1980 for the main story line.

This book that mainly concerns The Horseshoe Coach Group amongst the forementioned companies, from its very beginning, particularly historical images that were not readily available for the preceding book, along with informative text.

This latest paperback book is of British Royal sizing - as per Visions of Grandeur and 144 pages in total. The front as you can see is totally different to my normal practice of blue colour with either one or two photograhic images, all usually Horseshoe related. The storyline hopefully represents an alternative to the last that I thought was to be the final book. Hadn't realised that there were still a number of images within my family, as well as others that I have been able to use in helping to substantiate the different chapters. The price will be £15.00, including post and packing. I have commented within the framework of the book references to the last one i.e.,Visions of Grandeur in an attempt so not to dilute the former, and nor to be repetitive in explaining or otherwise. As always with my books, some of the history was well before I was born, whereas due to the amount of time I spent within the company - child - teenage - adult, there were different episodes that I was witnessed to or involved. The book, although is an accumilation of pictures it is a sequences of events through over a century, but with some years missing that can be found in the previous book. The final chapter more or least involves Harry Holmes's daughter, explaining what happened upon her death as his original will in turn had become primarily her benefit in various ways,