2011 parent michael strafford founded may 1998 headquarters north anston service area south yorkshire service type bus services depots 2 fleet 73 may 2015 website www.brightbus.net m a s special engineering limited 1 trading as mass brightbus 2 or simply brightbus is a bus operator in south yorkshire . contents 1 history 2 former operations 3 fleet 4 references 5 external links history edit brightbus was founded in may 1998 by michael strafford as an engineering business performing contract maintenance for other operators . it also specialised in the conversion of buses for non passenger use . it then diversified into the operation of school bus services . 3 former operations edit between 2001 and 2005 brightbus then known as mass transit had a substantial presence in lincolnshire following the acquisition of the bus operations of applebys coaches reliance travel of great gonerby and the grantham depot of roadcar . the grantham operation failed under mass ownership and was sold to centrebus and the lincoln area operations to dunn line in 2005 . in 2004 the company also purchased the long established leon motors of finningley that was formed in 1922 and operated buses in doncaster . by 2008 the company s stage carriage work passed to first south yorkshire and the remaining operations were integrated into the main brightbus depot at north anston . fleet edit as at may 2015 brightbus operated a fleet of 73 buses primarily english built double deckers repatriated from hong kong . 4 references edit companies house extract company no 3550779 mas special engineering limited vosa company information history brightbus brightbus sheffield omnibus enthusiast society external links edit media related to brightbus at wikimedia commons v t e bus operators in yorkshire and the humber east riding of yorkshire east yorkshire motor services stagecoach in hull yorkshire coastliner north lincolnshire stagecoach grimsby cleethorpes stagecoach in lincolnshire north yorkshire arriva yorkshire connexionsbuses dales & district first york york park and ride harrogate bus company transdev york york pullman yorkshire coastliner south yorkshire pte arriva yorkshire brightbus first south yorkshire sheffield community transport stagecoach yorkshire stagecoach sheffield tm travel wilfreda beehive west yorkshire pte arriva yorkshire first west yorkshire first bradford first calderdale & huddersfield first leeds harrogate bus company keighley bus company stotts coaches yorkshire coastliner yorkshire tiger tiger blue national megabus national express retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title brightbus & oldid 711118523 categories bus operators in south yorkshirecompanies based in rotherham1998 establishments in englandhidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 21 march 2016 at 00 24 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view