g bus midland marshall capital bodied dennis dart in bilston in october 2011 parent david reeves 74 % julian peddle 26 % founded april 1998 headquarters adderley green service area cheshire staffordshire depots 2 fleet 81 august 2016 website www.dgbus.co.uk d & g bus 1 is a bus operator based in adderley green in stoke on trent staffordshire . contents 1 history 2 fleet 3 references 4 external links history edit d & g bus was formed by david reeves and gerald henderson in april 1998 initially operating four buses on two routes under contract to stoke on trent city council . it expanded with both route and school services in cheshire and staffordshire with 16 buses by the end of 1998 . in april 2005 d & g bus purchased wednesfield based midland . 2 3 in 2006 following gerald henderson s sudden death julian peddle purchased henderson s shareholding in the business . 4 in august 2011 the staffordshire business was sold to wardle transport with 46 routes 30 buses and the adderley green depot . 5 6 in september 2011 d & g bus and julian peddle purchased south lancs travel in atherton greater manchester . 7 in august 2012 the midland business was sold to arriva midlands with 61 buses . 3 in december 2014 the route operations of bakerbus were purchased with nine buses . 4 8 9 in march 2015 d & g sold south lancs travel to rotala 10 and in may 2015 purchased wardle transport back from arriva midlands with 19 buses . 11 12 13 in april 2016 d & g took over six routes from routemaster buses . 14 fleet edit as at august 2016 the fleet consisted of 81 buses . 15 fleet livery was originally cream and blue it has since been replaced by a red with yellow signwriting scheme . references edit companies house extract company no 6918592 d & g bus limited companies house extract company no 2568750 liyell limited a b arriva midlands to expand operations in the west midlands arriva 10 august 2012 a b d & g bus bus & coach buyer 29 january 2015 arriva midlands acquires d & g bus & coach professional 10 june 2011 d & g buses bought by arriva owners blame subsidy cuts for sale the sentinel 11 june 2011 d & g buys south lancs bus & coach professional 10 october 2011 d & g buys bakerbus route one 2 january 2015 25 jobs saved after bakerbus is bought by crewe based d & g bus the sentinel 6 january 2015 acquisition in greater manchester rotala 2 march 2015 d & g bus to takeover wardle transport routes d & g buys wardle transport bus & coach buyer 18 march 2015 d & g bus buses issue 723 june 2015 page 84 d & g bus take over some services from routemaster buses d & g bus fleet list d & g bus external links edit company website flickr gallery v t e bus companies operating in north west england cheshire arriva north west d & g bus halton transport network warrington stagecoach merseyside & south lancashire cumbria mountain goat stagecoach cumbria & north lancashire greater manchester arriva north west bullocks coaches diamond bus north west first greater manchester jim stones coaches manchester community transport rosso stagecoach manchester & wigan stotts lancashire arriva north west blackburn bus company blackpool transport blue bus of penwortham john fishwick & sons pilkingtons buses preston bus preston park and ride rosso stagecoach cumbria & north lancashire stagecoach merseyside & south lancashire transdev in burnley & pendle merseyside arriva north west avon buses cumfybus htl buses stagecoach merseyside & south lancashire the green bus isle of man bus vannin national megabus national express retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title d % 26g bus & oldid 732367072 categories bus operators in cheshirebus operators in staffordshire1998 establishments in englandtransport companies established in 1998 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 languages add links this page was last modified on 31 july 2016 at 13 56 . 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