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First Potteries〔(Companies House extract company no 2291753 ) First Potteries Limited〕 is a bus company based in Stoke-on-Trent operating services in North Staffordshire. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup. ==History== The company began life as Potteries Motor Traction. As part of the privatisation of the National Bus Company, PMT Limited〔(Companies House extract company no 2010514 ) Butler Woodhouse Limited formerly PMT Limited〕 was created on 12 December 1986 when it was purchased by its management and employees. The team leading PMT's buyout were managing director Mike Moors, traffic manager Steve Ellis, chief engineer Barry Parkinson and company secretary Nigel Barrett. Expansion came quickly for PMT, and it had commenced operations outside its traditional North Staffordshire area a little over six weeks prior to purchase from NBC. On 25 October 1986, the day bus services in the UK were deregulated, a small outstation was established in the neighbouring town of Crewe. This was followed by a venture into Merseyside with the opening of a Red Rider outstation at Moreton on the Wirral Peninsula. A small operation in Leeds commenced in 1988, followed a year later by the winning of tenders in the West Midlands. This led to vehicles being outstationed at a haulage company's yard in Willenhall. On 6 February 1990, PMT purchased the Wirral, Ellesmere Port and Chester operations of Crosville Motor Services from the Drawlane Group. PMT was later purchased by Badgerline before they in turn merged with GRT Group and formed FirstBus. The sale including the former Crosville operations in Chester and Wirral. First Potteries now operates mainly urban services in and around Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme and surrounding towns, along with its network of services in Chester through the purchase of ChesterBus in 2007.〔(First Group - UK bus ) firstgroup.com〕 This business was integrated with the existing First Chester & The Wirral which already ran a network of services in these areas. The Chester & Wirral operations were sold to Stagecoach Merseyside in December 2012.〔(Bus firm Stagecoach snaps up service from FirstGroup ) ''BBC News'' 12 November 2012〕〔(£4.5 million bus buyout for Stagecoach in region ) ''Chester Standard'' 12 November 2012〕 As of July 2014, there have been changes to route numbers & some buses have been repainted in the new livery as well as Wi-Fi being provided free of charge. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「First Potteries」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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