Tag: Phil Blinkhorn
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The First PTEs – Part Three – Stockport Corporation
Not read from the beginning, click here On October 31st 1969 Stockport Corporation Transport had a fleet of 148 buses plus a handful of service vehicles. The next day all had been transferred to the Southern division of SELNEC whose management may have been rather surprised to find they had taken on charge a 1926…
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The First PTEs – Part Two – SHMD Board
Not read from the beginning, click here There were no fewer than 11 operators absorbed by SELNEC. Eighth in size and possibly the most odd in many respects was the Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield Transport and Electricity Board, so a few paragraphs about the operator are in order. Set up by an Act of…
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The First PTEs – Part One – Ashton under Lyne
Not read from the beginning, click here With its blind already set for the next outward journey, LTC 768 a 1950 H30/26R PD2/3 travels along Warrington Street, unrecognisable today, towards the bus station. Route 128 was originally trolleybus route 217. Haughton Green was a small village beyond Denton which lost its rural aspect in the…
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The First PTEs – The Beginning of the End for the Corporation Bus – SELNEC – Introduction
For almost 80 years the Corporation Bus was a fixture in many cities, towns and even rural areas around the United Kingdom. A low cost social transport service providing for many councils a nett income generator, the colour schemes and coats of arms carried were as much an identifier of the locale as the buildings…