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An agreement was reached on 28 th September whereby the Vale Busline Llandow<br />
operations and the coaching operations were sold to First Bus subsidiary A.F. & F.R.<br />
Brewer Ltd for a reported £¼ million.<br />
The services were taken over from Sun. 1 st October. Eleven Cardiff Llandow vehicles<br />
were returned to the Sloper Road depot and the four coaches dispatched to Brewers.<br />
Most <strong>of</strong> the Llandow staff stayed with Brewers. It was said that a clause in the agreement<br />
stated that Brewers would not operate services competing with Cardiff Bus for a period<br />
<strong>of</strong> three years.<br />
Brewers Dart N613 MHB at King Square, Barry in Oct. 1995 running under the Cardiff<br />
Busline licence. (Barrie Gilbert)<br />
Brewer’s ran on Vale Busline licences until services were registered in their own name.<br />
On 6 th October 1996 a new X50 service commenced from Cardiff Wales International<br />
Airport (Rhoose) to Cardiff General Railway station in conjunction with the associated<br />
company, First Great Western. In November 1997, First Bus became First Group, and<br />
rationalisation was in the air. Brewers business was bought in January 1998 using an ‘<strong>of</strong>f<br />
the shelf’ company named ‘Helproute Ltd’.<br />
In April 1998 the Brewers legal lettering disappeared from the buses to be replaced by<br />
South Wales Transport Co. Ltd. (S.W.T.)<br />
The same month the X50 was discontinued and the Llantwit <strong>–</strong> Barry <strong>–</strong> Cardiff service<br />
reduced to two hourly.<br />
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