United Automobile Services
of Regent Garage, Lowestoft
also of Bishop Auckland and Darlington
1912 Company incorporated
1931 The East Anglian undertaking of United Automobile Services Limited was transferred to Eastern Counties Omnibus Co Limited[1]. Eastern Counties owned Eastern Coach Works
1948 Part of Tilling Motor Services. Owned Eastern Counties Omnibus Co, Bell's Services, Orange Brothers. Nationalised; acquired by the British Transport Commission[2]
c.1969 became one of the largest operating subsidiaries of National Bus Co. It was split up before privatisation.
1987 NBC received bids for Darlington-based United Automobile Services and sold it to Caldaire North East Ltd which already owned West Riding Automobile Co. United had a fleet of 500 vehicles operating throughout County Durham and in parts of Tyne. As part of the Government's privatisation plans its operations were being split up, with all its services north of the Tyne being taken over by Northumbria Motor Services, which would be sold later, while its services in the Scarborough and Pickering areas of Yorkshire were transferred to East Yorks Motor Services.[3]