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First Potteries

Parent company	First Group plc
Headquarters	Adderley Green, Stoke-on-Trent[1]
Locale	North West, West Midlands
Service area	Stoke-on-Trent, The Potteries, Stafford, Chester, The Wirral
Service type	Bus
Hubs	Stoke-on-Trent
Fleet	274 Vehicles
Operator	First Group
Chief executive	Ken Poole
Web site	First Staffordshire and South Cheshire Homepage

First Potteries Limited (Formerly Potteries Motor Traction) is a company based in Stoke-on-Trent that operates buses in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and in Chester and The Wirral through its subsidiaries First Chester & The Wirral and ChesterBus.

Contents 1 History 2 Facts 3 External links 4 References

[edit] History

The company began life as Potteries Motor Traction Limited or PMT. It expanded beyond its Staffordshire base into Merseyside, Cheshire and Greater Manchester and in 1989/90 PMT acquired the Wirral, Chester and Stalybridge operations of Crosville from the Drawlane Group but not the Manchester, Runcorn and Warrington operations of Crosville which were integrated into Drawlane's North Western/associated Bee Line Buzz Company divisions. PMT was later purchased by the Badgerline Group plc before they in turn merged with GRT Holdings plc and formed First Group PLC, this sale including Crosville's operations in Chester and The Wirral. The original colours of the PMT fleet were red and yellow with the Potteries logo, since the change there are very few of these coloured buses remaining as almost all of them have been changed over the years to the standard First corporate colours (pink, white and blue). First PMT now operates mainly urban services in Stoke and surrounding towns, along with its network of services in the city of Chester through the purchase or ChesterBus in 2007^[2]. This business was integrated with the existing First Chester & The Wirral which already ran a limited network of services in The Wirral and Chester before the purchase of ChesterBus.

[edit] Facts

• Number of vehicles: 274
• Managing Director: Ken Poole
• Finance Director: Simon Davies
• Engineering Director: Michael Branigan
• Operations Director: Paul De Santis

[edit] External links

• First PMT homepage
• POPS homepage
• ChesterBus Homepage
• First Chester & Wirral Homepage

[edit] References

v • d • e FirstGroup plc United Kingdom bus companies: First Aberdeen · First Berkshire & The Thames Valley · First Bristol · First Cymru · First Devon & Cornwall · First Eastern Counties · First Edinburgh · First Essex · First Glasgow · First Hampshire & Dorset · First Leicester · First London · First Manchester · First Potteries (First Chester & The Wirral) · First Somerset & Avon · First South Yorkshire · First West Yorkshire (First Bradford, First Calderdale & Huddersfield, First Leeds) · First York (York Park and Ride) International bus companies: Aircoach · First Student · First Student Canada · First Transit · Greyhound Lines · BoltBus (50/50 operation with Peter Pan Bus Lines) · Greyhound Canada · Grey Goose Bus Lines · New World First Bus · Vancouver Island Coach Lines · Voyageur Colonial Bus Lines Railway companies: First Capital Connect · FirstGBRf · First Great Western · First Hull Trains · First ScotRail · First TransPennine Express · Heathrow Connect Tram operations: First London (operators of Tramlink) Annual revenue: ▲ £3,708 million GBP (2007) · Employees: 74,233 (2007) · Stock symbol: LSE: FGP · Website: www.firstgroup.com

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