Other Liberator orders were on a much smaller scale and included 10 each in 1997 for Liverpool independent CMT Buses, Ireland's Bus Éireann and by then FirstBus owned Strathcylde Buses / Greater Glasgow and GM Buses North took 5 Liberators delivered just after being taken over by FirstBus in 1996.

Despite this the low-floor revolution was in full swing and the Ultra attracted moderate orders from operators including Northern Ireland's Translink for its Belfast-based Citybus ( later Metro ) and Ulsterbus subsidiaries, Travel West Midlands / FirstBus subsidiary Northampton Transport-who both took gas powered examples, Ireland's Bus Átha Cliath ( Dublin Bus ), Greater Manchester-based Timeline Travel and Stagecoach's, Fife Scottish-who took a solitary example.

The ownership issue was not to be resolved until June 1996, however, when FirstBus agreed to purchase SB Holdings, including the 20 % Stagecoach share, for £ 110m.

* FirstBus, a United Kingdom bus company that was renamed First Group in 1998

FirstGroup was formed as " FirstBus " in June 1995 through the merger of the Badgerline Group and the GRT Group, with fleets in England, Wales and Scotland.

FirstBus continued the policy of growth by acquisition acquiring former council owned operations and companies owned by the English and Welsh and Scottish nationalised operators.

The change of name was due to the managing director of Great Eastern trains objecting to having FirstBus displayed on the side of his trains.

The Great Western franchise was awarded to Great Western Holdings whose shares were held by Richard George, Brian Scott and some other British Rail managers ( 51 %), FirstBus ( 24. 5 %) and 3i ( 24. 5 %).

Chevrolet was founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant on November 3, 1911, and later acquired by General Motors in 1918.

By October 1986, GM had acquired a 91 % stake in Group Lotus for £ 22. 7 million, which allowed them to legally force the company buyout.

AM General also built the now-discontinued civilian variant – the H1 – and manufactured a Chevrolet Tahoe-derived companion, the H2, under contract to GM, who acquired the rights to the civilian Hummer brand in 1999.

It was founded in 1857 as a pump and marine engine manufacturer, began manufacturing cars in 1903 and was acquired by GM in 1925.

In 1939 the top producers were Morris: 27 %, Austin: 24 %, Ford: 15 %, Standard ( founded in Coventry in 1903 ): 13 %, Rootes ( which had acquired Humber and Sunbeam ): 11 %, Vauxhall ( building cars since 1903, acquired by GM in 1925 ): 10 %.

Hertz was made a GM board member by 1927 when the company acquired a controlling share of the Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company, a successful bus and coach manufacturer founded by Hertz in 1923.

During the offseason, Herzog reclaimed the manager job, then held both the GM and field manager posts with St. Louis for almost two full seasons, during which he acquired or promoted many players who would star on the Cards ' three World Series teams of the 1980s.

Having left his company years before it was acquired by GM, in 1905 Olds established a new company, REO Motor Car Company, the predecessor to Nucor, in Lansing, Michigan.

In 2005, billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian acquired a 9. 9 percent stake in General Motors and seated one of his representatives on the company's board, then urged GM to investigate a merger with Renault and Nissan with Ghosn as the new chairman of GM.

Oakland's principal founder was Edward M. Murphy, who sold half the company to GM in January 1909 ; when Murphy died in the summer of 1909, GM acquired the remaining rights to Oakland.

From 2001 to 2003 he played for the San Diego Chargers, who, with the hire of a former Bills GM, acquired several former Buffalo players.

Shortly after the Port Authority began service, 150 new GM " Fishbowl " buses were introduced to replace aging ones acquired from its predecessors, a new route numbering convention was introduced, and the fare system was streamlined.

The GM at the time Carl Geisendorfer acquired a used tower, and proceeded to buy a used 18 wheel Semi and trailer and hauled the tower to Quincy Illinois one piece at a time.

He then spent another 14 seasons ( 1959 – 72 ) as GM of the Philadelphia Phillies, where he rebuilt the Phils from cellar-dwellers to NL contenders, and ( in his final trade ) acquired future Hall of Fame pitcher Steve Carlton from the St. Louis Cardinals.

These services are operated by Hunter Valley Buses, which acquired the previous provider Toronto Bus.

* Yellow Coach Manufacturing Company Major manufacturer of Buses Coaches, acquired by General Motors

The privatisation of London Buses in the mid-nineties saw Camberwell-based London Central acquired in November 1994, and this purchase was built upon in June 1996, when fellow London bus operator London General was acquired from the management and employee team that acquired the business at privatisation.

In 2011 and 2012 The Go-Ahead Group acquired Thames Travel and Carousel Buses respectively and brought the companies under the management of Oxford Bus Company, effectively merging the three companies together

Both companies were acquired by the Stagecoach Group from state-owned London Buses when its subsidiaries were privatised.

Sydney Buses acquired over 1300 O305s of different body styles ( by the same body manufacturer-Pressed Metal Corporation, or PMC ) between 1977 and 1987.

It acquired Arriva Scotland West's 49 % stake in Paisley company Dart Buses.

It is unclear as to when Stagecoach acquired the stake in Dart Buses and as such it is likely that the company operated the Stagecoach services while Arriva retained their stake.

Weeks before these new services were due to commence, Stagecoach acquired a 20 % stake in SB Holdings ( Strathclyde Buses and Kelvin Central Buses parent group ) and the " bus war " was averted.

Metroline was founded in 1989 by London Buses Limited, privatised in 1994, and acquired by ComfortDelgro in 2000.

After other trials around the country, this bus was bought by Lothian Buses in April 2008, and then acquired by Nottingham City Transport after it left Lothian Buses in late August 2009.

Further, Menelik had spent much of the previous four years building up a supply of modern weapons and ammunition, acquired from the French, British, and the Italians themselves, as the European colonial powers sought to keep each other's North African aspirations in check.

Magnolia Pictures has acquired the distribution rights for North America.

It is technically possible to be a North Korean citizen without being an ethnic Korean-James Dresnok, a European American, acquired North Korean citizenship in 1972-but immigration is almost unheard of, and ethnic minorities are negligible.

Pittsburgh-based Rockwell Standard then acquired and merged with Los Angeles-based North American Aviation to form North American Rockwell in September 1967.

In 1967 New Scotland Yard moved to the present building at 10 Broadway, still within Westminster, which was an existing office block acquired under a long-term lease ; the first New Scotland Yard is now called the Norman Shaw ( North ) building, part of which is used as the headquarters for the Metropolitan Police's Territorial Policing department.

Since the late 19th century, zombies have acquired notable popularity, especially in North American and European folklore.

Since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism, the term has tended to acquire acquired a negative connotation, and in much academic discourse become shorthand for Western feelings of superiority over, and overlooking of the views of, Asian and North African cultures.

In September 1969, Biafra acquired four ex-Armee de l ' Air North American T-6Gs, which were flown successfully to Biafra the following month, with another aircraft lost on the ferry flight.

The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War ( 1846 – 1848 ).

Kirkstall Abbey was acquired by Leeds Corporation as a gift from Colonel North and opened to the public in the late 19th century.

Though the present province of Gelderland ( English also Guelders ) in the Netherlands occupies most of the area, the former duchy also comprised parts of the present Dutch province of Limburg as well as those territories in the present-day German state of North Rhine-Westphalia that were acquired by Prussia in 1713.

In 1999, the company acquired Frontier Corporation, the former Rochester Telephone Corporation, and renamed it Global Crossing North America, Inc.

With their own # 4 pick, they chose guard Dion Waiters from Syracuse, and with pick # 17 ( which was acquired from Dallas on draft night ), they chose center Tyler Zeller from North Carolina.

Their population had declined after epidemics of infectious diseases, for which they had no acquired immunity, as these were endemic among European settlers and new to North America.

Although AMC Theatres registered a large loss in profits in the previous year, the Chinese purchasing company, Dalian Wanda Group, nevertheless acquired the weak company in order to enlarge their presence in North America.

The area was under pastoral lease beginning in 1876 when J Brockman acquired leases in the area covering North West Cape to run cattle.

On the island's north western side is a small luxury resort operated by Voyages Hotels & Resorts until November 2009, when the resort was acquired by Delaware North.

At the northern end of Ormond-By-The-Sea is the North Peninsula State Park, comprising approximately of undeveloped coastal dunes and marsh lands, which were acquired in the mid-1980s through the Conservation & Recreation Lands Program, later known as the " Preservation 2000 " and " Florida Forever " programs.

General Telephone and Electronics ( GTE ) acquired an exclusive agency for the system for North America.

There were large facilities of Solvay Pharmaceuticals, until February 2010 when Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago, IL, USA acquired Solvay Pharmaceuticals.

In 1870, the line was acquired by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and was rebuilt and extended to Oreland at a junction with the North Penn Railroad.

The Air Line was later acquired by the Chicago and North Western Railway and the line was pushed on to Sparta, Wisconsin.

Laramie's fame as the western terminal of the Union Pacific Railroad, acquired when the 268 mile section from North Platte, Nebraska was opened in May ended in early August 1868 when a 93 mile section of track was opened to Benton, six miles east of present day Sinclair, Wyoming.