comfortdelgro founded 21 november 1960 headquarters brentwood service area greater london service type coach charter services fleet 108 november 2004 website www.armchair.co.uk armchair passenger transport was a bus and coach charter operator in london . history edit armchair passenger transport was established as a coach operator in november 1960 being sold to eh mundy in 1974 . 1 in june 1990 it became a london regional transport contractor when it commenced operating route 260 with 12 alexander bodied leyland olympians and three leyland atlanteans . other routes operated were 65 117 190 209 237 493 e2 and e8 . fleet livery was initially orange and white before a red and orange livery was introduced to comply with a need for london buses to be 80 % red . in november 2004 the business was sold to comfortdelgro with 86 buses and 22 coaches . 2 3 4 it initially continued to operate as a separate entity before the bus operations were integrated with metroline and the coach operations 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