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MSA Operators: A Brief History

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Are you confused as to how our motorway services operators ended up the way they are? Do you not understand why they are listed the way they are in the operators section? Hopefully this image will clear things up: Please note that it's not extremely accurate and some items may be in the wrong order. You can hover your cursor over each joint and arrowhead for more information.

Service station operators timeline Blue Boar RoadChef Kenning Motor Group Granada Rank/Top Rank Mobil Ross/Motoross Mecca Leisure Taverna (Esso) Blue Star Take a Break First Pavilion Forte(s) Trust House Forte Trusthouse Forte Welcome Break Motorchef Welcome Break RoadChef buys Heart of Scotland RoadChef buys Blue Boar and Take-a-Break Kenning Motor Group sells Strensham to Take a Break Granada sells Bolton West and Magor to First Granada buys Pavilion and sells Bolton West and Magor to First Rank sells sites to Granada and Pavilion Granada buys Blyth Rank sells sites to Granada and Pavilion Mobil sells Michaelwood to Ross Forte merges with Trust House creating Trust House Forte Trust House Forte becomes Trusthouse Forte Trusthouse Forte buys Welcome Break and renames sites Welcome Break becomes Motorchef Motorchef changes back to Welcome Break and buys Ross Granada buys Esso and Trowell services Mobil sells Burton-in-Kendal and Kinross to Granada Granada buys Bolton West Granada acquires Trusthouse Forte, the owners of Welcome Break Granada becomes Moto Moto Extra today Westmorland Extra Cairn Lodge today Extra sells two sites to RoadChef Moto today Stop 24 today First today Welcome Break BP today Cairn Lodge Stop 24 BP Poplar 2000 RoadChef today Granada/Trusthouse Forte are forced to sell Welcome Break RoadChef sells Heart of Scotland to BP RoadChef sells Heart of Scotland to BP Westmorland today Welcome Break today Moto buys Lymm truckstop Service station operators timeline

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