Hi,
For the plugin to work on a website with SEF URLs activated, it first needs the virtuemart router to parse the SEF URL so that it can know the id of the product before redirecting to the new product page in HikaShop. It also needs the virtuemart menu item to still be there (hidden) so that the SEF routing in Joomla will still find the menu item.
So since you uninstalled virtuemart and you don't have anymore a menu item with the alias "bus-to-bus-adapters" (or a homepage for VM ?), it cannot work because it doesn't see any information it could base itself on to do the redirection. In fact, it's directly Joomla generating the 404 error before the plugin is even called.
I'm afraid I can't provide an easy solution there. I suppose the solution would be to use the
docs.joomla.org/Help310:Components_Redirect_Manager
component of Joomla to redirect the old URLs to the new ones manually.