After September 2nd Wessex Bus will be nothing more than a memory. I remember my first experience with them was in the Wessex Connect days, when I used the U3 as it was known back then, before it became the 13. My memories of Wessex Connect were the buses were often late and overcrowded.
The next time I used Wessex after my uni days was when they stepped in to save the 51. I definitely had to question their business acumen when running the service, though. 15 minutes during off-peak times, when passenger numbers were their lowest, and 30 minutes at peak times? They must have been running those extra buses at a loss. Nevertheless, they seemed to be able to make a small profit for a while, but that wasn't enough to save Wessex Bus.
I'd be very interested to know if they are selling any vehicles to First. There's no way Rotala can keep all of them, surely? It's a shame BJ14 KTA and KTC likely won't be sold, as far as I know they're the only Gemini 2's operating in Bristol.