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Fife Scottish, the Glossary

Fife Scottish Omnibuses Ltd was a former bus operating subsidiary of the Scottish Bus Group, formed in June 1985 from Walter Alexander & Sons (Fife) Ltd in preparation for bus deregulation and the subsequent privatisation of the Scottish Bus Group.^[1]

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1978 establishments in Scotland
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Transport companies established in 1978
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Amberley Publishing

Amberley Publishing are a firm of publishers in Stroud, Gloucestershire, who specialise in non-fiction transport and history books.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Bus deregulation in Great Britain

Bus deregulation in Great Britain involved the abolition of Road Service Licensing for bus services outside of Greater London.

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Coach & Bus Week

Coach & Bus Week (CBW) is a weekly trade magazine based in Peterborough for the road passenger transport industry in the United Kingdom.

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Commercial Motor

Commercial Motor is a weekly magazine serving the road transport industry in the United Kingdom.

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Court of Session

The Court of Session (Cùirt an t-Seisein) is the supreme civil court of Scotland and constitutes part of the College of Justice; the supreme criminal court of Scotland is the High Court of Justiciary.

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Cowdenbeath

Cowdenbeath is a town and burgh in west Fife, Scotland.

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Daily Record (Scotland)

The Daily Record is a Scottish national tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dundee; Dùn Dè or Dùn Dèagh) is the fourth-largest city in Scotland.

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Dunfermline

Dunfermline (Dunfaurlin, Dùn Phàrlain) is a city, parish, former Royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Employee stock ownership

Employee stock ownership, or employee share ownership, is where a company's employees own shares in that company (or in the parent company of a group of companies).

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Fife

Fife (Fìobha,; Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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Glenrothes

Glenrothes (Glenrothes; Gleann Rathais, pronounced) is a town situated in the heart of Fife, in east-central Scotland.

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Ian Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton

Ian Bruce Lang, Baron Lang of Monkton, PC DL (born 27 June 1940) is a British Conservative Party politician and Life Peer who served as the Member of Parliament for Galloway, and then Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, from 1979 to 1997.

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Interdict

In Catholic canon law, an interdict is an ecclesiastical censure, or ban that prohibits certain persons or groups from participating in particular rites, or that the rites and services of the church are prohibited in certain territories for a limited or extended time.

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James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas

James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas, (31 July 1942 – 28 November 2023) was a Scottish Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Edinburgh West and then as a member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Lothians region.

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Kirkcaldy

Kirkcaldy (Kirkcaldy; Cair Chaladain) is a town and former royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland.

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Leven, Fife

Leven (Pictish; Inbhir Lìobhann) is a seaside town in Fife, set in the east Central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Leyland Olympian

The Leyland Olympian was a 2-axle and 3-axle double-decker bus chassis manufactured by Leyland between 1980 and 1993.

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Management buyout

A management buyout (MBO) is a form of acquisition in which a company's existing managers acquire a large part, or all, of the company, whether from a parent company or individual.

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Methil

Methil (Meadhchill) is an eastern coastal town in Scotland.

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Northern Counties (bus manufacturer)

The Northern Counties Motor & Engineering Company was an English builder of bus and coach bodywork based in Wigan.

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Office of Fair Trading

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) was a non-ministerial government department of the United Kingdom, established by the Fair Trading Act 1973, which enforced both consumer protection and competition law, acting as the United Kingdom's economic regulator.

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Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland is a junior ministerial post (of Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State rank) in the Government of the United Kingdom, supporting the Secretary of State for Scotland.

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Perth, Scotland

Perth (Scottish English:; Peairt) is a centrally located Scottish city, on the banks of the River Tay.

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Perthshire Advertiser

The Perthshire Advertiser (originally the Perthshire Advertiser and Strathmore Journal) is a tabloid newspaper, published by Reach plc, in Perth, Scotland.

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Saltire

A saltire, also called Saint Andrew's Cross or the crux decussata, is a heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross.

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Scottish Bus Group

The Scottish Bus Group (SBG) was a state-owned group of bus operators covering the whole of mainland Scotland. Fife Scottish and Scottish Bus Group are 1991 disestablishments in Scotland.

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Scottish Citylink

Scottish Citylink is a long-distance express coach operator in Scotland and Ireland (where it operates as Irish Citylink) and formerly England (where it operated as Stansted Citylink).

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Scottish Motor Traction

Scottish Motor Traction (SMT) was a Scottish bus operator founded in 1905 that ran services for most of the 20th century.

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Secretary of State for Scotland

The secretary of state for Scotland (Rùnaire Stàite na h-Alba; Secretar o State fir Scotland), also referred to as the Scottish secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Scotland Office.

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St Andrews

St Andrews (S.; Saunt Aundraes; Cill Rìmhinn, pronounced) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh.

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Stagecoach Bluebird

Stagecoach Bluebird (also known by its legal operating name Bluebird Buses Ltd, and formerly Northern Scottish Omnibuses Ltd) is a Scottish bus company which operates bus services in the areas of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray.

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Stagecoach East Scotland

Stagecoach East Scotland (Stagecoach an Ear na h-Alba) is a bus operator providing services in eastern Scotland, with its regional base in Dunfermline, Fife. Fife Scottish and Stagecoach East Scotland are transport in Fife and transport in Perth and Kinross.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fife_Scottish

Fife Scottish, the Glossary

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1978 establishments in Scotland

1991 disestablishments in Scotland

Companies based in Fife

Transport companies disestablished in 1991

Transport companies established in 1978

Transport in Fife

Transport in Perth and Kinross

References