GM Buses Liverpool

[Brickmill]

RE: GM Buses Liverpool
Hope all this helps?? It was an interesting time there was always stuff of interest in both Liverpool and Manchester very day, every week and in-between the two Cities and beyond as well. One of the things that brought stuff to a head was MTL had appointed Alan Johnson who knew Manchester well through working there while GMN's Chief Executive at the time was Alan Westwell who was a Liverpudlian by birth, both knew each others territories very well and were able to pick lucrative routes to compete on to try to hit profits of one another. That I think was when they finally knew they couldn't carry on competing like they had been doing as each others key staff knew each others Cities as well as the directors that were with the native directors if not better.
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That and the city centre bus strategy. Remember MTL used 100 filthy 17-19 year old Atlantean s which produced more NoX and far more PM10 s that the whole GM based bus fleet of today. Not forgetting these buses were. Then left with engines running for 20+ minutes at a time at outer termini