History of The PTE Bus Operations - Former Municipal Bus Companies Absorbed Into Passenger Transport Executives

Former Municipal Bus Companies Absorbed Into Passenger Transport Executives

Many municipal bus companies in the largest conurbations came under the control of passenger transport executives following the Transport Act 1968. The following is a list of the seven PTEs established in either 1968 or 1974, and the municipal bus companies which became part of combined bus fleets.

  • Merseyside (1969).
    • Birkenhead
    • Liverpool
    • St Helens (1974)
    • Southport (1974)
    • Wallasey
  • SELNEC (South East Lancashire North East Cheshire, 1969), later Greater Manchester (1974)
    • Ashton-under-Lyne
    • Bolton
    • Bury
    • Leigh
    • Manchester
    • Oldham
    • Ramsbottom
    • Rochdale
    • Salford
    • Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield
    • Stockport
    • Wigan (1974)
  • South Yorkshire (1974)
    • Doncaster
    • Rotherham
    • Sheffield
  • Strathclyde (1972)
    • Glasgow
  • Tyneside (1969), later Tyne and Wear (1974)
    • Newcastle upon Tyne
    • South Shields
    • Sunderland (1973)
  • West Midlands (1969)
    • Birmingham
    • Coventry (1974)
    • Walsall
    • West Bromwich
    • Wolverhampton
  • West Yorkshire (1974)
    • Bradford
    • Halifax
    • Huddersfield
    • Leeds

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