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Some of the former A1 members continue to operate their own businesses, including Parkhouse Garage of Ardrossan ( service station and car repairs ), McKinnon of Kilmarnock ( haulage ) and Steele's Of Stevenston ( coach and limousine hire ).

McMenemy of Ardrossan wound up their car repairs business in December 2004 and sold their premises to Clydeport plc, although the coach hire operation continued a little longer, till March 2005.

Though Docherty Of Irvine had always run a parallel coach hire firm separate to A1 Service, this former owner ventured back into local bus operation around the Irvine and Kilmarnock area in competition with Stagecoach Western in the late 1990s.

It sold its routes and associated vehicles to Stagecoach Western in October 2004.

Docherty has now stopped all operations and its vehicles were sold off at the beginning of 2009.