page_title: National Bus Company (UK)
section_title: Deregulation and privatisation
hierarchical_section_title: National Bus Company (UK) / Deregulation and privatisation
caption_attribution_description: English: Midland Red Coaches coach 1052 (reg. ROG 552Y), a rebuilt Leyland Leopard coach - 1052 is one of 4 which were delivered new to Midland Red in 1970 with 49 seat Plaxton Panorama bodywork, being numbered 6249/251/54/5 (registered WHA 249/51/4/5H). Having been withdrawn in 1980/1, they were sent to Eastern Coach Works to be rebodied, all re-entering service in January 1983 with new sequential fleetnumbers/registations, as 1049-1052 (ROG 549Y - ROG 552Y), seeing service until 1995.
context_page_description: The National Bus Company was a nationalised bus company that operated in England and Wales between 1969 and 1988. NBC did not run buses itself, but was the owner of a number of regional subsidiary bus operating companies.
context_section_description: From 1986, bus services in the UK were deregulated and progressively privatised, with the remaining larger companies forcibly broken up.
  NBC was divided into 70 units, with the first sale being of National Holidays to Pleasurama in July 1986. The last sale was completed in April 1988.
  The sales spawned a renewed interest in individual liveries and the "double-N" logo disappeared. However, it was kept by National Express when it was sold to their management and continued to be used until 2003, when the NBC logo finally disappeared in favour of a new logo, since replaced in 2007. Most local companies passed from state control to management buyouts. The independence of many however, was short lived, as they were acquired by the emerging large private bus groups, represented today by:
  Abellio
  Arriva
  FirstGroup
  Go-Ahead Group
  National Express
  RATP Group
  Stagecoach Group
  Transdev
caption: Midland Red Eastern Coach Works bodied Leyland Leopard in National Holidays livery
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