Selkent was owned by whom between Dec 2006 and Mar 2007?
Selkent Selkent ( an acronym of South East London & Kent ) is a bus company operating in central and south London and some parts of north-west Kent . It is a subsidiary brand of Stagecoach London and operates services under contract to Transport for London . Selkent shares its headquarters with sister company East London at West Ham . History . Selkent began as an operating district of London Transport in the early 1980s . On 1 April 1989 , London Buses was divided into 11 separate business units , one of which was Selkent . Selkent was the first London Buses subsidiary to completely cease operation of AEC Routemasters , in March 1992 , when the Catford garage allocation on route 36B was converted to driver-only-operated buses . In September 1994 , Selkent was sold to Stagecoach and renamed Stagecoach Selkent . In November 2000 , Stagecoach consolidated its London operations under the Stagecoach London brand . In August 2006 , Stagecoach sold its London bus operations to Macquarie Bank . The new owner restored the Selkent name and logo . In October 2010 Stagecoach reacquired its old London operations with Selkent once again rebranded as Stagecoach London . Livery . Between 1988 and 1994 Selkent , along with the other London Buses subsidiaries , used a red livery with a grey skirt . Following privatisation , Selkent adopted an all-red livery . In November 2000 , Stagecoach introduced a new standard livery of white with a dark blue skirt and orange and light blue swirls at the rear . For Selkent ( and East London ) , the white was replaced by red , to conform with a contractual requirement for London buses to be 80% red . After the sale to Macquarie Bank , an all-red livery was reintroduced . Garages . Selkent operates three bus garages . Bromley ( TB ) . As of December 2018 , Bromley garage operates routes 61 , 146 , 314 , 336 , 638 , 664 and B14 . History . Bromley garage was opened by the London General Omnibus Company in April 1924 . Built at a cost of £23,000 , it was originally designed to house 60 buses , although the plan was to ultimately enlarge it to take an additional 40 when operations required it . Under an agreement reached with Thomas Tilling , the garage was allocated to the latters use , along with Croydon and Lewisham , resulting in Tilling-type vehicles being the mainstay of the fleet until 1949 , when the final petrol-engined STL-type double deckers were finally superseded . This was made possible by the hire of 17 AEC Regents from Leeds City Transport . Between 1972 and 1979 , Daimler Fleetlines joined the AEC Regent III RTs , running alongside them . AEC Routemasters were not introduced to Bromley until 1975 , being replaced in 1984 by Leyland Titans . With regards to single-deckers , Bromley first housed RF-class AEC Regal IVs , arriving in 1952 , which were gradually replaced by AEC Swifts between 1968 and 1971 . FS-class Ford Transit minibuses were introduced in 1972 for local route B1 , before these were replaced in 1976 by BS-class Bristol LHSs . These were in turn replaced by longer , BL-class Bristol LHs in 1978 . In 1977 Leyland Nationals replaced the last of the SMSs , and ran alongside the BLs until 1985 , when Bromley became the domain of Nationals and Titans . In the early 1990s , the Nationals were replaced by Carlyle bodied Dennis Darts and MCW/Optare MetroRider midibuses . After the takeover by Stagecoach , some of the Titans were replaced by Volvo Olympians , before the fleet at Bromley began to be standardised on the Dennis Trident 2 and the Dennis Dart SLF . In slightly more recent years , a plot of land on the opposite side of the side road ( Lower Gravel Road ) was developed into an open yard for storage of the larger number of generally longer , taller , wider vehicles required for todays operations . Catford ( TL ) . As of January 2019 , Catford garage operated routes 47 , 54 , 75 , 124 , 136 , 199 , 208 ( part allocation ) , 273 , 380 , 621 , N199 and P4 . History . Catford Garage was opened in 1914 by the London General Omnibus Company , but was requisitioned a year later and did not re-open until 1920 when Thomas Tillings Lewisham operation moved there due to space constraints at his other garage . Originally coded L , for Lewisham , it was changed to TL in 1924 to avoid confusion with Loughton . Thomas Tilling gained an agreement in 1923 to double the size of Catford and to open a new garage in Bromley to cope with the new housing estates that were springing up around the area . The roof has had to be raised twice , first in 1930 to enable double deck buses to use the garage and again in 1948 to accommodate AEC Regent III RTs . By 1954 Catford was operating some 194 RTs , the last leaving in 1978 . Catford has done considerably better than most garages in numbers over the years , especially since de-regulation , having an allocation of 122 buses in 1994 rising to around 160 in the early 2000s . Plumstead ( PD ) . As at December 2018 , Plumstead garage operated routes 53 , 96 , 122 , 161 , 177 , 422 , 472 , 601 , 602 and 672 . History . Plumstead is well sited to serve the growing Thamesmead area , and was built in 1981 to replace the existing Plumstead and Abbey Wood garages and was intended to be called Thamesmead . Built to hold 185 buses , when opened in 1981 it had an allocation entirely made up of MCW Metropolitans , and by 1983 had changed entirely to Leyland Titans . The garage was home to 35 Mercedes-Benz Citaro articulated buses that worked on route 453 between March 2003 and April 2008 . Fleet . As at September 2014 , East London had a peak vehicle requirement of 405 buses . External links . - Stagecoach London website