CTA takeover in Potteries 'plain crazy'
14th April 1967, Page 42
14th April 1967
Page 42
Page 42, 14th April 1967
— CTA takeover in Potteries 'plain crazy'
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Keywords :
Counties Of England, Local Government In England, First Potteries, Stoke-on-trent, Staffordshire
THE formation of a Conurbation Transport
Authority to acquire and operate all the buses in North Staffs. would have "disastrous effects" for the whole of the Potteries community, said Mr. Raymond Birch, chairman of the Potteries Motor Traction Co., at a longservice dinner at Stoke on Trent last week for company employees.
Mr. Birch, who is retiring from the company later this month, added: "To take this highly organized and concentrated PMT undertaking, serving this closely knitted area and kill its individuality by merging it into a sprawling untidy regional transport authority covering hundreds of square miles like a bad Midland imitation of London transport would not be merely illogical —it would be just plain crazy."