British City Bus was the parent company of the English bus manufacturer, East Lancashire Coachbuilders, which was based in Blackburn. After going into administration in August 2007, the company was bought by the Darwen Group.
Famous quotes containing the words british, city and/or bus:
“In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.”
—Nancy Banks-Smith, British columnist. Guardian (London, February 20, 1979)
“The City is of Night, but not of Sleep;
There sweet sleep is not for the weary brain;
The pitiless hours like years and ages creep,”
—James Thomson (1834–1882)
“If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in that bus in Montgomery, she’d still be standing.”
—Mary Frances Berry (b. 1938)