Travel de Courcey was a bus and coach operator based near

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in the

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of England. It operated local bus services in the Coventry and

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area and

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contracts.

History

Mike de Courcey Travel was founded in 1972 by Mike de Courcey. It expanded into bus service operations after the

Transport Act 1985 The Transport Act 1985 was an Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom. It introduced privatised and deregulated bus services throughout Great Britain and came into effect in October of 1986. The Act was created as a response to growing concern ...

deregulated the UK bus industry. In June 2011, Mike de Courcey Travel took over the

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depot of

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and several

contracts from them. In April 2017 Mike de Courcey Travel was awarded the

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in the sustainable development category. On 24 August 2020, the operator fell into administration, citing a steep decline of passenger numbers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stagecoach took over the running of the routes 60 and 703 and

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, as well as school services under contract to

Warwickshire County Council Warwickshire County Council is the county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Warwickshire in England. Its headquarters are located at Shire Hall, Market Square, in centre of the county town of Warwick. Politically the county is ...

. As of 2012, Mike de Courcey Travel operated services under contract to

on these routes: *210

Gatwick Airport Gatwick Airport (), also known as London Gatwick , is a major international airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, south of Central London. In 2021, Gatwick was the third-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the UK, after H ...

*325 Birmingham -

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*384 Birmingham - Llandudno *387

- Blackpool *410

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*420 Wolverhampton - London *540 Manchester - London Former significant bus routes: *Until July 2016, Travel de Courcey operated 360A/360C

City Circular, the longest urban bus route in Europe at 31 miles.City's popular 360 bus service scrapped to make way for three separate services
''

Coventry Observer The ''Coventry Herald'', ''Coventry Herald and Observer'' or the ''Coventry Herald and Free Press'' was a newspaper that was established in 1808 by Alderman Nathaniel Merridew, a ribbon warehouseman and Congregationalist, in Coventry, England a ...

'' 21 April 2016

References

External links

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Company website
{{Defunct British Bus Companies, state=collapsed Bus operators in the West Midlands (county) Former coach operators in England Transport companies established in 1972 Transport companies disestablished in 2020 Transport in Birmingham, West Midlands Transport in Coventry Transport in Warwickshire 1972 establishments in England 2020 disestablishments in England