Lancashire United Transport Ltd : official time table - October 1952 : adverts
From the October 1952 issue of the Lancashire United Transport's timetables. The LUT had its origins in 1905 when the Lancashire United Tramways took over the ailing South Lancashire Tramways. Over time the majority of the company's operations were of bus and coach routes, as the Lancashire United Transport company although certain tram routes had been converted to trolleybus operation in the 1930s and these were under the aegis of the South Lancashire Transport Company. The network covered a large section of south Lancashire's industrial towns, King Cotton and King Coal being of great importance, and the company served many smaller industrial villages and towns.
They also operated many services in conjuction with the numerous municipal operators, including Salford, Bolton, Wigan, Warrington, Leigh and St. Helens and other company operations such as Ribble. Indeed with Bolton and St. Helens joint trolleybus operations were technically run - Bolton being a real oddity in that they 'owned' a small number of trolleybuses that were to all intents and purpose SLT vehicles. The timetable still, in places refers to them as 'trackless trolley 'buses'.
Like many such publications the timetables include adverts both for LUT's services, especially coach and private hires, as well as for local companies and shops. This page has adverts for adverts showing that W H Smith were the contractors for advertising on both the vehicles and in the company's timetables. The second advert is for the once famous Littlewood's department stores. Littlewood's sprang from the 1920s football pools company based in Liverpool and in which the Moores family was involved. By the 1930s they had branched out into mail order, sending catalogues out with the pools papers, and in 1937 opened their first shop in Blackpool. The company grew to be one of the largest national chains but as the retail world shifted by the turn of the Twentieth Century the stores were progressively closed, the final ones vanishing in 2005 - an early harbinger of the massive changes on the High Street.
Lancashire United Transport Ltd : official time table - October 1952 : adverts
From the October 1952 issue of the Lancashire United Transport's timetables. The LUT had its origins in 1905 when the Lancashire United Tramways took over the ailing South Lancashire Tramways. Over time the majority of the company's operations were of bus and coach routes, as the Lancashire United Transport company although certain tram routes had been converted to trolleybus operation in the 1930s and these were under the aegis of the South Lancashire Transport Company. The network covered a large section of south Lancashire's industrial towns, King Cotton and King Coal being of great importance, and the company served many smaller industrial villages and towns.
They also operated many services in conjuction with the numerous municipal operators, including Salford, Bolton, Wigan, Warrington, Leigh and St. Helens and other company operations such as Ribble. Indeed with Bolton and St. Helens joint trolleybus operations were technically run - Bolton being a real oddity in that they 'owned' a small number of trolleybuses that were to all intents and purpose SLT vehicles. The timetable still, in places refers to them as 'trackless trolley 'buses'.
Like many such publications the timetables include adverts both for LUT's services, especially coach and private hires, as well as for local companies and shops. This page has adverts for adverts showing that W H Smith were the contractors for advertising on both the vehicles and in the company's timetables. The second advert is for the once famous Littlewood's department stores. Littlewood's sprang from the 1920s football pools company based in Liverpool and in which the Moores family was involved. By the 1930s they had branched out into mail order, sending catalogues out with the pools papers, and in 1937 opened their first shop in Blackpool. The company grew to be one of the largest national chains but as the retail world shifted by the turn of the Twentieth Century the stores were progressively closed, the final ones vanishing in 2005 - an early harbinger of the massive changes on the High Street.