page_title: Southern Vectis
section_title: Business practices in the deregulated market
hierarchical_section_title: Southern Vectis / Business practices in the deregulated market
caption_attribution_description: English: Southern Vectis 202 (KDL 202W), a Bristol LH/ECW, stands at Ryde Bus Station Stand C in June 1987. Usually double deckers were used for the 1A service, however the duplicates which became 1A services to take on rival bus operators were often this type of bus.
context_page_description: Southern Vectis is a bus operator on the Isle of Wight. The company was founded in 1921 as "Dodson and Campbell" and became the "Vectis Bus Company" in 1923. The company was purchased by the Southern Railway before being nationalised in 1969. In 1987, the company was re-privatised. Southern Vectis was accused of unfair trade practices and was investigated by the British Office of Fair Trading. In July 2005, it became a subsidiary of Go-Ahead Group.
context_section_description: As a result of deregulation in 1986, several competitors started and others increased existing services. These competitors included Gange's Minicoaches, Grand Hotel Tours, Island Travel (Cooke's Coaches of Porchfield), Moss Motor Tours, Seaview Services' RedLynx and Wiltax of Shanklin. Island Travel and Gange's Minicoaches established routes between Cowes and Ryde.
  The newly privatised Southern Vectis responded with a number of new business practices. These practices raised the interest of the Office of Fair Trading who, in 1987, investigated the company and found their behaviour to be anti-competitive.
caption: Eastern Coach Works bodied Bristol LH at Ryde bus station on route 1A in June 1987
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