olympus bodied scania n230 in april 2010 parent mike de courcey founded 1972 headquarters coventry service area coventry warwickshire birmingham service type bus & coach services depots 1 fleet 125 october 2013 website www.traveldecourcey.com travel de courcey 1 is a bus and coach operator based near coventry in the west midlands region of england . it operates routes in the coventry and warwickshire area . contents 1 history 2 services 3 fleet 4 references 5 external links history edit mcv evolution bodied man 14.220 in may 2007 travel de courcey was founded in 1972 by mike de courcey . it expanded into bus service operations after the transport act 1985 deregulated the uk bus industry . in june 2011 travel de courcey took over the birmingham depot and several national express contracts from veolia transport . 2 3 services edit travel de courcey operates 21 route services many from the university of warwick as well as school services under contract to warwickshire county council . 4 travel de courcey operates services under contract to national express on these routes 5 210 birmingham gatwick airport 325 birmingham manchester 384 birmingham llandudno 387 coventry blackpool 410 wolverhampton london 420 wolverhampton london former significant bus routes 360a 360c coventry city circular . the longest urban bus route in europe at 31 miles . 6 7 8 ceased in july 2016 9 10 11 fleet edit as from october 2013 travel de courcey fleet s consisted of 125 vehicles . 12 references edit companies house extract company no 1360645 mike decourcey travel limited travel de courcey speeds up with national express win insider news 11 august 2011 national express contract prompts 5m investment businessdesk.com 12 august 2011 where are you travelling to travel de courcey national express coach handbook 8th edition . british bus publishing . 2012 . isbn 978 1 904875 78 9 . coventry bus route is longest in europe at 31 miles bbc news 4 june 2013 new coventry bus route the longest in europe coventry telegraph 4 june 2013 record breaking bus route launched nuneaton news 13 june 2013 lack of patronage leads to restructure of europe s longest bus route route one 21 april 2016 major coventry bus route to be axed because not enough people use it coventry telegraph 21 april 2016 city s popular 360 bus service scrapped to make way for three separate services coventry observer 21 april 2016 mike de courcey travel limited wmbusphotos.com external links edit media related to travel de courcey at wikimedia commons company website v t e bus operators in the west midlands herefordshire first midland red as part of first midlands shropshire arriva midlands bryn melyn minsterley motors tanat valley coaches staffordshire arriva midlands bakerbus diamond bus first potteries as part of first midlands midland classic wardle transport part of d & g bus warwickshire johnsons coach & bus travel stagecoach in warwickshire as part of stagecoach midlands transport for west midlands arriva midlands central buses diamond bus hanson s local buses national express coventry national express west midlands the green bus travel de courcey worcestershire diamond bus first midland red as part of first midlands hardings national megabus national express retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title travel de courcey & oldid 732534088 categories bus operators in the west midlands county coach operators in englandtransport in birmingham west midlandstransport in coventrytransport in warwickshire1972 establishments in englandhidden categories use dmy dates from march 2016commons 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 1 august 2016 at 16 18 . 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