in june 2012 slogan for all your travel needs parent marteine malcolm & nigel richards founded may 1943 headquarters cardigan service area cardigan fishguard service type bus and coach services alliance trawscambria routes 40 1 fleet 65 website www.richardsbros.co.uk northern counties paladin bodied daf sb220 in pembrokeshire in june 2013 richards bros buses 2 welsh brodyr richards is a bus operator based in cardigan wales . it has purchased many smaller bus companies over time and currently has 65 vehicles running local bus services and school buses in south west wales primarily ceredigion and pembrokeshire with some carmarthenshire services as well as coach tours . the major competitor in north ceredigion is arriva cymru . richards bros also operates a share of the new demand responsive bwcabus service . contents 1 history 2 services 3 livery 4 fleet 5 references 6 external links history edit william goronwy richards started carrying passengers in the late 1930s however richards brothers was established in may 1943 by william richards when his children idris and reggie were introduced to the company . 3 the first buses run by richards were mostly bedfords the first being a converted bedford ws registered alp 674 purchased in 1937 . a second hand bedford whb followed in july 1941 . richards brothers cardigan and newport dickinson les venture publishing the first bought new in 1943 was a bedford owb manufactured with wooden seats 4 to fit the war years and the first operations base was a small site in moylgrove . originally richards were contracted by the military to ferry employees of the royal naval armaments depot at rnad trecwn and royal aircraft establishment at aberporth ; these contracts were crucial to the firm up to the 1960s . these decreased rapidly throughout the 1980s and stopped during the 1990s . 5 in 1958 the first of many purchases was made when owen williams of cardigan was acquired . in 1971 western welsh ceased and richards took over the fishguard to st davids service . in 1972 blue glider of st dogmaels was purchased from lewis williams followed by in 1976 by pioneer motors newport . 3 in 1982 the haverfordwest operation of marchwood motorways was purchased . in 1998 tm daniels of cardigan was purchased . 3 5 services edit as at june 2014 richards brothers operate services on 40 routes including trawscambria 550 and x50 . 6 livery edit plaxton beaver bodied mercedes benz t2 on the poppit rocket service in cardigan in november 2007 richards bros coaches carry a white livery with a variety of logos . the current bus livery is silver towards the front with a dark blue skirt which rises at the rear to cover the rear of the bus . this was pinched from the optare demonstration livery . 7 this was preceded by a silver upper half with a blue skirt running straight along the bus with a red stripe along the side slightly above the blue . this in turn was preceded by a blue and maroon colour scheme with more white added in for the coaches . 8 9 richards bros also operate several vehicles which carry special liveries for certain services . these include the pembrokeshire coastal buses e.g. poppit rocket trawscambria trawscymru and bwcabus fleet edit as the company grew older bedford remained the dominating vehicle manufacturer ; both second hand and new buses were purchased with the largely prevailing bodybuilders being duple and plaxton . over 100 bedfords were used by the richards family . since bedford closed in 1986 new buses have generally been of volvo daf or dennis manufacture . there were only ever seven double deck buses within the fleet and were two bristol k6a an aec regent v three leyland titans and an aec bridgemaster . 5 references edit bus services richards brothers companies house extract company no 4461445 wg richards & sons limited a b c history richards brothers richard bros . total travel . retrieved 6 october 2012 . a b c dickinson les 2011 . buses yearbook 2011 . ian allan . pp. 124 128 . isbn 978 0 7110 3474 7 . bus services richards brothers optare efe showbus international 2003 photos . showbus.com . retrieved 4 october 2012 . welsh bus photographs google groups . welsh bus photographs.googlegroups.com . retrieved 6 october 2012 . donati david ; bill potter ; nicolas simon 2006 . 6 . the welsh bus handbook 4 ed . . british bus publishing ltd. isbn 1897990340 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to richards bros. official website v t e bus operators in wales companies arriva buses wales bath bus company cardiff bus edwards coaches express motors first cymru lloyds coaches nat group newport transport richards bros stagecoach south wales tanat valley coaches long distance megabus national express trawscymru retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title richards brothers & oldid 735452009 categories bus operators in walescompanies based in ceredigiontransport in ceredigionhidden categories use dmy dates from june 2014articles containing welsh language textcommons 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 20 august 2016 at 20 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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