page_title: History of the PTE bus operations
section_title: Former municipal bus companies absorbed into passenger transport executives
hierarchical_section_title: History of the PTE bus operations / Former municipal bus companies absorbed into passenger transport executives
caption_attribution_description: Photo taken at the Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive 40th anniversary event at St Georges Plateau, Liverpool.
context_page_description: The Passenger Transport Executive bus operations were the bus operating divisions of the passenger transport executives in the United Kingdom. In 1986 they underwent a process of deregulation and privatisation, forming some of the largest private bus companies in the UK outside London, with all being sold to their employees or management. Despite their relative size and lucrative operating areas, none of the companies survived beyond the late 1990s, with all falling into the hands of the major bus groups, who had their origins in privatised regional subsidiaries of the former National Bus Company and the Scottish Bus Group.
context_section_description: Many municipal bus companies in the largest conurbations came under the control of passenger transport executives following the Transport Act 1968. The following is a list of the seven PTEs established in either 1968 or 1974, and the municipal bus companies which became part of combined bus fleets.
  Merseyside (1969)
  Birkenhead
  Liverpool
  St Helens (1974)
  Southport (1974)
  Wallasey
  SELNEC (South East Lancashire North East Cheshire, 1969), later Greater Manchester (1974)
  Ashton-under-Lyne
  Bolton
  Bury
  Leigh
  Manchester
  Oldham
  Ramsbottom
  Rochdale
  Salford
  Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield
  Stockport
  Wigan (1974)
  South Yorkshire (1974)
  Doncaster
  Rotherham
  Sheffield
  Strathclyde (1972)
  Glasgow
  Tyneside (1969), later Tyne & Wear (1974)
  Newcastle upon Tyne
  South Shields
  Sunderland (1973)
  West Midlands (1969)
  Birmingham
  Coventry (1974)
  Dudley Midland Red operations (1973)
  Walsall
  West Bromwich
  Wolverhampton
  West Yorkshire (1974)
  Bradford
  Halifax
  Huddersfield
  Leeds
caption: Preserved Merseyside Transport East Lancashire Coachbuilders bodied Leyland Atlantean in November 2009
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