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Hinkley Depot

Lower Coventry Road, Hinckley.

• Red built steel-framed 3-bay garage with offices and workshops, purpose built by BMMO with a capacity for 50 vehicles indoors, and additional parking on a large forecourt.
• Depot opened by Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited (BMMO — Midland “Red”) on 1^st January 1935, using depot code HY.
• Building partly turned over to the war effort in 1940, and extended at the rear by the Ministry of Aircraft Production, for use in the manufacture of aircraft engine parts.
• Small number of producer-gas buses operated from Hinckley depot during the Second World War.
• Building extension passed to BMMO after the end of the Second World War, increasing capacity to 60 vehicles.
• Company renamed to Midland Red Omnibus Company Limited (MROC) on 29^th March 1974, with a depot allocation of 38 vehicles and approximately 116 staff at this time.
• Depot closed on 12^th May 1979, with the introduction of the “Hunter” MAP scheme, and the subsequent reorganising of services.
• Saw further use as Gas Board offices.
• Demolished and site is now used for housing.

7 Jacknell Road, Dodwells Bridge Industrial Estate, Hinckley.

• Site used by NWP Travel of Hinkley.
• Business and operations of NWP Travel passed to Midland Fox Limited in 1990.
• Operations of NWP Travel merged in to Midland Fox, as depot code HK.
• V&M Hills (Midland Fox subsidiary) Nuneaton depot is closed in 1993 and all operations moved to this site.