Associated Motorways Summer 1972 workings

This is a photocopy of what was the lead sheet of an almost full set of formal licensing/administration documents produced by Associated Motorways for the Summer 1972 - back then these were spirit duplicated on foolscap paper. The sheet contains a list of all the services upon which I wrote the initials of the operating company alongside the service number. As far as I know the service numbers were never carried on the coaches but were prominent in the timetables.

There were certain intentional omissions from the document set. The only real missing details are service D19 (Worcester-London) (perhaps Midland Red?) and service K41 (Oxford-Portsmouth), I couldn’t find reference to the latter in the timetable and I often wondered if it was the former South Midland holiday service placed under Associated Motorways by NBC.

Of the others, Yelloway handled the licensing/administration/operation of joint services G31, H51, H60, J42, K31 and K46. Ribble likewise for joint service H33. I can’t say exactly which of the Yorkshire based operators provided the administration of service H32 (the ‘South West Clipper’ pool) – I have been told it was Yorkshire Traction. Service H31 was jointly operated with Northern General and United and would presumably have been administered by them.