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Sir Thomas Cowie OBE (9 September 1922 – 18 January 2012) was an English businessman who was the honorary Life President of the Arriva Group, formerly known as Cowie Group plc. Career. Cowie Group. Cowie's father, Thomas Stephenson Knowles Cowie, headed a business, T. Cowie Ltd, which repaired and sold cycles in Matamba Terrace, Sunderland.
Arriva plc is a British multinational public transport company headquartered in Sunderland, England. The company was originally established in 1938 as T Cowie Ltd. Initially focused on the sale of motorcycles, it relaunched shortly after the Second World War by Tom Cowie.
Thomas Cowie was born in Sunderland in 1922 to TSK Cowie, a motor-cycle repairer, and his wife Florence. At Tom's primary school some fellow pupils went barefoot.
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Oct 19, 2023 · The company was originally established as TSK Cowie in Sunderland in 1938 as a secondhand motorcycle dealer, before being relaunched as a car dealership with a vehicle hire division. It became involved in the bus sector amid deregulation in the 1980s and renamed itself as Arriva in 1997.
Mar 28, 2019 · The company was founded as TSK Cowie in Sunderland in 1938 as a second-hand motorcycle dealer. It was later re-launched as a car dealership and also added vehicle hire before taking...
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May 5, 2016 · The company was founded as TSK Cowie in Sunderland in 1938 as a motor dealer but became a growing transport group in the 1980s. It was was bought by Deutsche Bahn in 2010, and operates rail and...
