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COOKS COACHES: CLIMB AND COLLAPSE
| 题名： | COOKS COACHES: CLIMB AND COLLAPSE |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | CHRISTOPHER CARTER |
| 摘要： | Riding London buses growing up in Finchley and Baker Street, Paul Landymore dreamt of running his own network, conjuring up the name Landylines - a play on his surname. Interested in bus operations, he attended the City of London Polytechnic 1976-80 where a Business Studies degree course specialising in transport included a six-month placement at Hants and Dorset. Its manager recommended the National Bus Company management training scheme, leading to two years at South Wales Transport, rubbing shoulders with James Freeman and Roger French before short stints at Midland Red North and City of Oxford. In 1983, he became Southern National's development and marketing officer in Taunton. Its traffic manager, Ben Colson, studied at the same polytechnic and later ran independent Norfolk Green which - like Cooks Coaches - grew markedly before selling to Stagecoach and despite assurances lost its strong local identity, lacked local management and subsequently closed down. After deregulation and its 1988 management buyout, Landymore was promoted to Southern National Somerset Manager liaising with other operators. He met Ian and Jill Cook running the small partnership Cooks Services, so named as plumbing was once a sideline to school runs and private hires. They were considering retiring and Landymore was up for a new challenge, but needed an engineering sidekick. To his surprise, Southern National Somerset Engineering Manager, Nigel Billinger, needed little arm twisting. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Buses |
| 卷： | 74 |
| 期： | 804 |
| 页码： | 34-39 |
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