SELNEC Private Bus and Coach Hire : leaflet : SELNEC PTE : Manchester : 1970 : cover
"Speeding smoothly along the autobahn in a superb, modern SELNEC coach" ; my how Kraftwerk. That said, I'd have loved to have seen one of SELNEC's finest in Germany! SELNEC, standing for South East Lancashire & North East Cheshire, was one of the first Passenger Transport Executives/Authorities formed under the 1968 Transport Act and it merged a variety of municipal operators in the region. In 1974, with boundaries extended, it became the Greater Manchester PTE.
SELNEC, determined one suspects to use a livery colour not one of their components woudl have ever considered and also to look 'modern' went for orange as the fleet colour and my, did it look bold back in the day. Whereas it might not have looked so cool on older vehicles of traditional design, it did look very good on new vehicles and indeed SELNEC/GMPTE had a srong corporate identity as the "Big Orange". I have to say I'm a bit sad that the new franchsied Bee Network now being rolled out in the region went for that insipid yellow and now the orange.
Anyhow, this leaflet from 1970 shows the range of buses and coaches available for hire and, unlike many municipal operators who were often severely restricted as to where private hire vehicles could wander, the world was SELNEC's oyster.
SELNEC Private Bus and Coach Hire : leaflet : SELNEC PTE : Manchester : 1970 : cover
"Speeding smoothly along the autobahn in a superb, modern SELNEC coach" ; my how Kraftwerk. That said, I'd have loved to have seen one of SELNEC's finest in Germany! SELNEC, standing for South East Lancashire & North East Cheshire, was one of the first Passenger Transport Executives/Authorities formed under the 1968 Transport Act and it merged a variety of municipal operators in the region. In 1974, with boundaries extended, it became the Greater Manchester PTE.
SELNEC, determined one suspects to use a livery colour not one of their components woudl have ever considered and also to look 'modern' went for orange as the fleet colour and my, did it look bold back in the day. Whereas it might not have looked so cool on older vehicles of traditional design, it did look very good on new vehicles and indeed SELNEC/GMPTE had a srong corporate identity as the "Big Orange". I have to say I'm a bit sad that the new franchsied Bee Network now being rolled out in the region went for that insipid yellow and now the orange.
Anyhow, this leaflet from 1970 shows the range of buses and coaches available for hire and, unlike many municipal operators who were often severely restricted as to where private hire vehicles could wander, the world was SELNEC's oyster.