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Bus deregulation pioneer passes away

BUSES

15 September 2017
Blundred, with minibus
Blundred, with minibus

 

Harry Blundred, one of the pioneering figures of bus deregulation in the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 75. 

In 1986 Blundred led a management buy-out of Devon General – the first part of the National Bus Company to be privatised. Deregulation followed later that year and Blundred pioneered high frequency minibus services in and around Exeter and Torbay. He went on to form Thames Transit in Oxford and in 1994 was awarded an OBE for services to the bus industry.

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