The Darlington Bus War refers to a series of events between 1986 and 1995 in the UK bus industry in the town of Darlington, northern England, culminating in the wholesale entry of Stagecoach Group onto the Darlington bus scene, and the collapse of Darlington Corporation Transport.
In November 1994, the events in Darlington and in other areas prompted the Director General of Fair Trading to request the MMC to investigate the supply of bus services in the North East.
Read more about Darlington Bus War: Background, Busways Interest, Bidding Process, Collapse of Darlington Transport Company, Aftermath and Inquiry Conclusions, Busways Response, Present Day, Industrial Economics
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“There was an old man from Darjeeling
Who got on a bus bound for Ealing.
It said at the door,
“Please don’t spit on the floor,”
So he carefully spat on the ceiling.”
—Anonymous.
“To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be Unjust. The notions of Right and Wrong, Justice and Injustice have there no place. Where there is no common Power, there is no Law; where no Law, no Injustice. Force, and Fraud, are in war the two Cardinal virtues.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)