West Midlands Buses Preserved 2- Celebrating 50 Years of WMP

This is the 2nd programme featuring preserved buses that served the large West Midlands conurbation. The excellent Transport Museum at Wythall, near Birmingham in the West Midlands is home to a large collection of buses and coaches. Throughout the year they put on some excellent events, usually with a theme using their own and other preserved buses invited to participate. This DVD filmed in October 2019, features one such event – the celebration of 50 years since the formation of WMPTE. WMPTE brought together the Corporation bus fleets of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall and West Bromwich. Their individual liveries disappeared to one that featured a modified version of the Birmingham Corporation livery of blue and cream. It lasted from 1969 to 1986 and then became West Midlands Travel. Coventry Corporation had joined the combined fleet in 1974. To the present day the PTE and PTA continue to control the West Midlands, but the majority of the buses are operated by National Express West Midlands.