Potteries Motor Traction, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire : advert issued c1960
An advert in the Staffordshire County Handbook c1960 for the local bus and coach company Potteries Motor Traction, PMT. The company had its origins in the areas Victorian tram system that upon switching from steam to electricity came together as the Potteries Electric Traction Company. With abandonment in 1928 and in view they were now wholly a bus fleet the name was changed to "Motor" in 1930.
Operating both local stage carriage services as well as long distrance coach services, often in conjunction with other operators, and excursions and holidays, their red and white liveried vehicles were a familiar sight until merged fully into the National Bus Company in 1969. They never had as much as a monopoly as many other such concerns in that the Potteries had numerous private operators vying with PMT.
Potteries Motor Traction, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire : advert issued c1960
An advert in the Staffordshire County Handbook c1960 for the local bus and coach company Potteries Motor Traction, PMT. The company had its origins in the areas Victorian tram system that upon switching from steam to electricity came together as the Potteries Electric Traction Company. With abandonment in 1928 and in view they were now wholly a bus fleet the name was changed to "Motor" in 1930.
Operating both local stage carriage services as well as long distrance coach services, often in conjunction with other operators, and excursions and holidays, their red and white liveried vehicles were a familiar sight until merged fully into the National Bus Company in 1969. They never had as much as a monopoly as many other such concerns in that the Potteries had numerous private operators vying with PMT.