Seeing as this thread had been bumped recently it awakened my interest in the history of BRS after de-nationalisation. Searching through the internet I came across this article from the archives of Commercial Motor
archive.commercialmotor.com/arti … age-reborn
It is interesting to note that of the companies that they specifically mentioned as having done rather well from the de-nationalisation process three of them (Road Services Caledonian, Road Services Forth and D McKinnon) were later brought back under the BRS umbrella. These were all sizeable operations when they were with the BRS group in the 60’s and 70’s.
So that got me thinking - how many other companies that emerged as a result of assets bought from BRS during the de-nationalisation era later got absorbed back into the nationalised company?