London Country South West was a former bus operator which existed between 1986 and 2000. It was formed from a part of London Country Bus Services. The company was privatised in 1988 and sold to Drawlane, who adopted the trading name London & Country. One section of London Country South West continues to operate today as Arriva Guildford & West Surrey.
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Famous quotes containing the words london, country, south and/or west:
“The Thirties dreamed white marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming. After the war, everyone had a car—no wings for it—and the promised superhighway to drive it down, so that the sky itself darkened, and the fumes ate the marble and pitted the miracle crystal.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far- reaching in purpose.”
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—C. Vann Woodward (b. 1908)
“We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)