Bergen – Hardanger – Voss Billag

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Bergen – Hardanger – Voss Billag A / S
legal form Aksjeselskap A / S
founding January 1, 1978
resolution September 30, 2001
Reason for dissolution Merger in 1997
Seat Mountains
Branch Traffic Company

Bergen-Hardanger-Voss Billag A / S bus

The Bergen-Hardanger-Voss Billag A / S (BHV) was a transport company in the Norwegian city of Bergen . The head office was located at Inndalsveien 22.

history

The Bergen-Hardanger-Voss Billag was established on 1 January 1978, when the founded in 1933 Bergen-Hardanger Billag A / S , which until 1920 reaching back mountains Dale Voss Billag and 1936 resulting from the merger of several companies A / S Voss – Stalheim – Gudvangen Automobillag merged to form BHV. In 1980 the Teigdalen Billag company was taken over.

In 1997, the business of BHV was transferred to Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap (HSD), which in turn had arisen in 1880 from the interest groups Hardangeren , founded in 1869, and Det Søndhordlandske Dampskibsselskab , founded in 1871.

HDS merged again with Gaia Trafikk in 2006 , which at that time operated 300 buses. In the same year this merged company merged with the transport company Tide , one of the largest bus companies in Norway.

As a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSD, BHV changed its name to HSD Buss AS , and BHV was finally dissolved on September 30, 2001.

operation area

When the company was founded, it took over a concession from the Norges Statsbaner for bus transport on the Voss - Granvin route .

In coordination with HSD, bus connections were offered on the Bergen – Hardanger route via Kvamskogen . Other connections were the routes Bergen – Voss via Dale and Bergen – Tysse - Eikelandsosen . The longest served route was the Bergen – Aurland route with 210 kilometers.

For a while, the cooperation between BHV and HSD with coaches took place under the umbrella organization Unitur . Norges Statsbaner (NSB) was the company's largest shareholder, but never gained full control of the company with the shares.

Real estate company

The workshop building the NSB Verkstedet Kronstad on Inndalsveien 28 lying on an approximately 50 hectares of which partially of Bergen-Hardanger Voss Billag A / S belonged.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BERGEN-HARDANGER-VOSS BILLAG A / S, bergenbyarkiv.no, May 28, 2009. Retrieved May 24, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Inndalsveien. In: Bergen byleksikon. Bergen Byarkiv, accessed April 2, 2014 (Norwegian).

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