(19 Nov 2013, 9:51 am)Richard Smiles wrote With effect from Midnight on Saturday 30 November 2013, Leven Valley will be no more & will instead be known as Leven Valley Limited from Sunday 1 December 2013 @ 00.01.00 hours.

In addition, it base of operations will be moved from South Bank (Dennis Dixons), to the Compass Royston Depot on Bowesfield Lane in Stockton, to become part of the Procter’s Business Consortium.

Leven Valley Limited will effectively be the Service Bus element of the company, whilst Compass Royston will focus soley on Coaching & Private Hire Work.

It should be noted, that NO money has changed hands, so the company has not actually been sold outright. It is effectively now a partnership (amalgamation) between Leven Valley & Procter’s.

Something like this was going to happen sooner or later, given that Paul Thompson is now 70! Years of age, though Paul will still be involved as Traffic Manager of the Leven Valley side of things (TBC).

As far as I know at the moment, Leven Valley Limited will retain it’s current (Red & Yellow) Livery, I am not sure if the Fleet Name will be redesigned to reflect the change in its Status.

My brother works for Leven Valley as a driver & he was called to a meeting on Sunday with other drivers to be told this News.

That's interesting news and was only a matter of time like you say.
It's nice to see Procters keeping the name for their service side in Teesside... Though they too are staring at the same outcome in April which will presumably leave a 2 bus operation alongside Leven's operation so shouldn't be too hard to bolt the two together.