Potteries Motor Traction - A Retrospective

Geoff Smith takes us through the formation, growth and eventual demise of PMT from the North Staffordshire Tramway Company, through Potteries Electric Traction Company and Potteries Motor Traction. Profusely illustrated with a magnificent selection of photographs from the original BET's company archive, supplemented and enhanced by contemporary archive material dating back to the vellum indentures assigning the company to the BET in October 1900, we see horse trams from GF Train, steam and then electric trams. The fledgling buses and their successors, personnel and property, through to NBC, privatisation and up to the 21st Century are all covered.