Lothian Buses: Mac Tours

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English: The Mac Tours subsidiary of Lothian Buses. The company was set up in 1999 by Donald and Ruth Dewar, and operated both vintage bus tours in the city and ordinary bus routes, using a red & cream livery and Mac Tours fleetname. It was acquired in April 2002 by Lothian, who kept the livery and Mac Tours as a fleetname, but consolidated the variety of vintage types used on the retained vintage bus tour to a mostly Routemaster fleet. The other services were also retained within the subsidiary, leading to some Lothian buses being transferred and operated in Mac livery, and others in allover livery for Standard Life shuttle bus route. This was later phased out for non-tour operations, but the Mac Tours fleetname did appear briefly on the Harlequin livery on the Optare Solo fleet.