dennis lance in june 2006 parent go ahead group founded 2 december 2005 defunct 3 march 2008 headquarters tividale locale west midlands service type bus services fleet 130 march 2008 website www.birmingham coach.co.uk go west midlands 1 was a bus company in the west midlands . it was a subsidiary of the go ahead group in march 2006 . contents 1 history 2 fleet 3 references 4 external links history edit on 2 december 2005 the go ahead group purchased diamond bus 1 2 and in february 2006 probus management 3 trading as people s express with over 100 vehicles and merged the two companies to form go west midlands . 4 5 in 2006 diamond relaunched its image by increasing its frequency on route 16 which basically matched that of travel west midlands and increased its frequencies on routes 17 63 64 74 and 87 . however in november 2007 diamond withdrew its services on routes 17 and 63 and majorly altered its operations on routes 74 and 87 cutting parts of the route off completely . diamond also lost many centro and staffordshire county council contracts to other operators . in march 2008 go west midlands was sold to rotala and rebranded as diamond bus . 6 7 8 fleet edit as at march 2007 go west midlands operated a fleet of over 130 buses . 8 references edit a b companies house extract company no 2490584 go west midlands limited formerly the birmingham omnibus company limited acquisition of birmingham passenger transport services limited go ahead group 2 december 2005 companies house extract company no 4384063 probus management limited acquisition of the business and assets of probus management limited go ahead group 22 february 2006 diamond bus reddibus disposal of go west midlands go ahead group 3 march 2008 diamond bus ltd rotala a b go ahead sells west midlands unit bus & coach professional 11 march 2008 external links edit showbus gallery v t e former bus companies of the united kingdom national associated motorways blazefield holdings british bus british coachways 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