(24 Nov 2013, 12:25 pm)Richard Smiles wrote As some of you will/may be aware Leven Valley is to be amalgamated with Compass Royston etc. to become part of the Procter’s Consortium of Fleets, with effect from a week today Sunday 1 December 2013.

There has been a site meeting for Leven Valley Staff at the Compass Royston premises this morning & I am now able to give you the following information:-

1. Paul Thompson, (Owner & Manager of Leven Valley) has been confirmed as being on the board of directors & will look after the service bus side of the operation.

2. From what I understand, for the time being, although ALL of the service bus work will ALL be under the Leven Valley Limited brand, the Compass Royston Boroughbus services & Route 66 will be kept separate for the time being, by this I mean Compass Drivers won’t be doing Leven services & vice-versa, but this will probably no doubt change in the coming months, once things have settled down & into the New routine.

3. Very SADLY!!! & I mean very SADLY!!, the Leven Valley (Red & Yellow) Livery is afterall to be discontinued with ALL vehicles being painted in Overall White Livery. So if there are any photos of vehicles in Leven Valley Livery, that you don’t have, you need to move quickly as a repainting programme is planned in the coming weeks to get the vehicles into a “Standard” (White) livery, as quickly is possible.

4. As I also understand it from this morning, A NEW Fleet name is to be introduced based on the Corporate Design as is used by Dales & District, Compass Royston & Procters, though it is expected to be in Red & Yellow colour scheme, rather than Blue & Yellow as used by the fore mentioned.

This is as much information, that I am able to provide at the moment, but I do hope that it is helpful to you all.

Kindest & Sincerest Regards,

Richard

Even though it is a shame to see another indepedent go, hopefully the deal will safeguard jobs and routes for years to come.

Fingers crossed, the combined company can push on and develop a stronger operation - who knows, even putting one or two noses out amongst the big boys along the way