MPTE SOUVENIRS

Some of the items in my collection of MPTE memorabillia

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Pic 1: The Liverpool Coat of Arms from above the radiator of a 1956 AEC Regent V

Pic 2: Paying-in bag. Drivers paid their cash into a drop-safe. The key was used to stamp the receipt as the bag dropped. Cash was placed in paper bags (50p in 1p pieces, £1 in 2p pieces, or £5 in silver) together with a "paying-in slip" detached from the waybill inside the canvas bag.

Pic 3: Bus Stop plate from the 1940's. This was originally on the shelter on Kings Drive, Woolton, inbound, near Hunts Cross Avenue.

Pic 4: A rare enamel Bus Stop plate from 1970. This was in the Liverpool City Transport style, but very few were made before the new plates with a picture of a bus were introduced.

Pic 5: An Information board from inside a bus. These contained useful information and a summary of the terms and conditions that applied to passengers.

Pic 6: A "window bill" advertising a service change. These were pasted on the inside windows of the buses. I have several others from the mid 1970's.

Pic 7: A sign from a Leyland Panther. Nowadays tip-up seats are for wheelchairs and buggies.

Pic 8: A metal timeboard. These had to be placed in the cab so the numbers could be seen outside.

Pic 9: The reverse of the timeboard, showing the entire day's running for the bus.

Pic 10: The centre of a steering wheel on a 1973 Leyland Atlantean.

Pic 11: This bell-push "fell off" bus 1442 (EKD 442L)

Pic 12: Free badge to promote the sales campaign for Saveaway tickets in 1981.

Pics 13 & 14. Bus fleet plates. 1029 was a Leyland Panther dating from 1968. I drove the other three buses (all Atlanteans) when I worked at Green Lane depot. There is a photo of 1857 on the "MPTE BUS PICS" page of this website. The "T" plates were used on buses that had tachographs fitted.