page_title: Whippet (bus company)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Whippet (bus company) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Go Whippet bus (reg. AE59 EHR), a 2010 Volvo B7RLE single-decker with Plaxton Centro bodywork. It's branded for and operating Cambridgeshire Guided Busway route C, on the first day of public services.
context_page_description: Whippet, formerly Go Whippet, is a bus operator based in Swavesey, Cambridgeshire.
context_section_description: Whippet Coaches was founded in Huntingdonshire by bicycle salesman Henry Lee in 1919. The first Whippet coach was converted from an American ambulance.
  Originally based in the village of Hilton, they moved into a depot at Fenstanton in 1977. In 2009 the company sold these buildings to Stagecoach in The Fens and moved to a depot at Swavesey. In November 2014, the business was sold to Transit Systems, the parent company of London bus company Tower Transit. In October 2018, Go Whippet was sold to the Ascendal Group, owned by Tower Transit's former CEO Adam Leishman.
  Whippet used to operate some summer only services to the coast. These have been running in various forms from 1957 up to 2013, and ultimately served Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Felixstowe, Clacton-on-Sea and Southend-on-Sea.
caption: Plaxton Centro bodied Volvo B7RLE on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway on the opening day 7 August 2011
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