Saturday, 8 September 2018

‘Scene at Showbus 2017. ‘Potteries’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

In the days prior to the Nationalisation of buses of England and Wales in 1969 much of the bus industry was comprised of two major groups.

 

One was the ‘Transport Holding Company’ (THC) which was already government owned and the other was the ‘British Electric Traction Federation’ (BET) which was privately owned.

 

One of the constituent companies that made up ‘BET’ was ‘Potteries Motor Traction’ or as it was better known ‘PMT’ which today is part of ‘First’ group

 

The company operating in an around Stoke-on-Trent and the associated Potteries towns.

 

 

 

NEH 466 ‘Potteries Motor Traction’ No. L 466. Leyland OPD2/1 / Northern Counties Motor Engineers (NCME)

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk

 

Unusual in that the chassis dates from 1949 when it carried a single deck Weymann body which was rebodied by ‘NCME’ in 1954.

 

The ‘L’ in the number indicates that the bus is of ‘Lowbridge’ layout.

 

NEH 466 ‘Potteries Motor Traction’ No. L 466. Leyland OPD2/1 / Northern Counties Motor Engineers (NCME) on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

766 EVT ‘Potteries Motor Traction’ No. L9766. Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 / Weymann

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk

 

The ‘L’ in the number indicates that the bus is of ‘Lowbridge’ layout.

 

766 EVT ‘Potteries Motor Traction’ No. L9766. Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 / Weymann on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

KP54 LAO ‘First Potteries’ No 32634. Volvo B7TL / Wright Gemini

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk

 

New to ‘First Northampton’.

 

KP54 LAO ‘First Potteries’ No 32634. Volvo B7TL / Wright Gemini on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

KX09 MGV ‘First Potteries’ No 32635 ’25’. Volvo B7TL / Wright Gemini

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk

 

New to ‘First Northampton’.

 

KX09 MGV ‘First Potteries’ No 32635 ’25’. Volvo B7TL / Wright Gemini on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

YY66 PXP ‘First Potteries’ No 67159. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200MMC 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk

 

YY66 PXP ‘First Potteries’ No 67159. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200MMC  on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

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