GREEN AGAIN

摘要

Grampian Regional Transport was the company that gave birth to today's First Bus. The company created in 1986 to operate Aberdeen's municipal buses at arm's length from Grampian Regional Council was sold to a management/employee buyout in January 1989. It wanted to protect itself from the emerging big groups and instead turned itself into what for a time was the biggest group of all, FirstGroup, with operations across the UK, North America and toeholds in Europe. Until First adopted a uniform UK bus livery at the turn of the 21st century, Aberdeen's buses (and trams before them) were green and cream. Grampian added a stripe of orange when local government transferred them from the city corporation in May 1975, but they became green and cream again in the 1980s and the arm's length GRT adopted a two-tone green version with a kick-stripe towards the rear.