Wolverhampton Corporation Transport Department map : County Borough of Wolverhampton official guide, 1966

            From the 1966 Official Guide to the County Borough of Wolverhampton that had that year been extended to include the former smaller neighbouring boroughs of Bilston, Wednesfield and Tettenhall. Amongst the municipal services covered the Corporation's Transport Department is included. Wolverhampton, an operator I recall both in the pre- and post-PTE days of 1969 was an interesting undertaking. In this edition the soon to be finally abandoned trolleybuses, that used to proudly feature in the Handbooks, have already been airbrushed from history and the motor bus reigns supreme. 

The Corporation were slightly unusual for a municipal and largely urban undertaking in that they also ran 'country area' bus services out into surrounding towns, villages and indeed hamlets and these routes were a great joy! They were handed over, eventually, to the NBC operator Midland Red in 1974 when the WMPTE acquired that operators Black Country routes. This map was used for advertising for many years and is almost identical to the 1953 version with one slight extension - that to Donington. The undertaking also made use of the 'Mercury' municipal transport symbol that appears to have been an attempt to 'brand' council undertakings and that a few transport departments used.

Needless to say Wolverhampton nearly always bought 'local' and that meant a large fleet of Wolverhampton built Guy Motors chassis.

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Sets appears in: • Wolverhampton Official Handbook, 1966 • Wolverhampton more » • Old maps • Old bus, trolleybus and tram stuff • Some old advertising « less

Groups appears in: • Public Transportation • British Buses more » • Vintage Advertising • Public Transport Around the World • Golden Age of Advertising: 1950s - 1970s • Guy Motors Ltd of Wolverhampton • Wolverhampton as it was. • Classic Transport • PLANET EARTH TRANSPORTATION • PLANET EARTH BACK IN THE DAY • Bus Memorabilia • PLANET EARTH VINTAGE ADVERTISING « less

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