Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport (known at first as "Liverpool Corporation Tramways")
first came into being back in 1897, but did not run buses until 1910.
In 1945, following the Second World War, the process of replacing the
tramways with buses began. As part of the post war planning policy, slum
clearance became a priority, creating new towns outside the
main metropolitan areas that in turn needed appropriate transport links. Bus
routes were, therefore, extensively developed to reach out to these new
urban areas and their new commuters


Liverpool Corporation Transport Committee 1945

By 1957 the entire tram network had been replaced by a new system of bus routes and in
1962, the Liverpool Junior Chamber of Commerce carried out a study on
of transport governance.
The result of that study was to recommend that a Transport
Executive, separated from politics, should be set up to present the best forms of transport for the City.


A Liverpool Tram and one of the new Liverpool buses together in front
of the Liver Building at the Pier Head Terminus


Paradise Street Bus Station 1968


Spellow Lane Walton Bus Depot


Walton Bus Depot


Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport (LCPT) Bus outside
the Royal Liver Building at the Pier Head


Early Photograph of Buses on Lime Street

Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority & Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive were set up after the Transport Act of 1968. MPTE was formed in November 1969 and from 1 December assumed responsibility for the bus and ferry fleets of the former Liverpool, Birkenhead and Wallasey municipal undertakings. The MPTA was at first made up of representatives from each of the 18 councils on Merseyside; after 1974 the MPTA was Merseyside County Council, through its 23-member Passenger Transport Committee. The MPTA (the "shareholders") was responsible for overall policy decisions on public transport - fares, frequency of services, etc - and the MPTE (the "board of directors") was to handle the day-to-day running of the transport, i.e. putting those policies into action.

To control its operations the PTE was split into three traffic divisions: Wirral (formed from the Birkenhead and Wallasey undertakings and including the Mersey Ferries) and North and South Divisions (based on those adopted latterly by Liverpool City Transport, extended to the PTE boundary). Following local government reorganisation in 1974 Southport and St Helens were added to the the PTE's sphere of operations, as Districts within the existing North and South Divisions respectively. In 1981 these Districts became Divisions in their own right. Following further local government changes in 1986 MPTE became Merseyside Transport Ltd.


Pier Head Bus Terminus


Pier Head Bus Terminus c 1980s



Rows of Buses on their respective stands at the Pier Head

As well as the MPTE there was also the Ribble Bus Company and Crosville operating some of the services in Liverpool


Skelhorne Street Bus Station


Inside Skelhorne Street Bus Station



Ribble Buses in front of the Post Office sorting office at the top of Skelhorne Street




A Crosville Bus at The Pier Head

Read more about Liverpool Buses Here


http://mttrust.co.uk/#/buses-lcpt/4546442054


http://liverpoolpicturebook.com/