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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/
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