Badger Vectis Badger Vectis Badger Vectis was an English bus company based in Poole. A post-deregulation joint venture between Weston-super-Mare based bus company Badgerline and Isle of Wight bus company Southern Vectis, it was set up in September 1987 to compete with incumbent operator Wilts & Dorset. The buses all used the Badgerline brand. After a noted bus war between the two large companies, Badger Vectis folded in March 1988. Badger Vectis was formed in September 1987 as an joint venture between Badgerline (80%) and Southern Vectis (20%), after both recently privatised bus companies had failed in a joint bid earlier in
Terminology of the British Isles II, Chapter 1 of as "Iwernia, Bretanic Island", and Chapter 2 as "Alwion [sic], Bretanic Island". The name "Albion" for Great Britain fell from favour, and the island was described in Greek as Πρεττανία or Βρεττανία, in Latin "Britannia", an inhabitant as Βρεττανός, "Britannus", with the adjective Βρεττανικός, "Britannicus", equating to "British". With the Roman conquest of Britain the name Britannia was used for the province of Roman Britain. The Emperor Claudius was honoured with the agnomen "Britannicus" as if he were the conqueror, and coins were struck from AD 46 inscribed or . With the visit of Hadrian in