" FARES PLEASE! " 1950s PMT UK SINGLE & DOUBLE DECKER BUS CONSTRUCTION & OPERATION FILM XD81665

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This film "Fares Please!" was produced by Potteries Motor Traction, a former Stoke-on-Trent bus company, as part of a series of "Coaching Journal" public relations films. It probably dates to the 1950s. The film looks at all the steps that are needed for its double decker Leyland buses to operate. It was produced by John W. Jones, directed John F. Speed, and photographed by Ian Hudson and Jack Sheppard. PMT or Potteries Motor Traction is now First Potteries bus company, which is still based in Stoke-on-Trent and operating services in North Staffordshire, England. It is a part of First Midlands and a subsidiary of FirstGroup.
It starts with the construction of the double decker and single decker bus as well as all the safety driving tests that it has to go through, which is followed by the training of the crew. There is also an animation of how the bus schedule functions and the complications associated with this. Finally, there is footage from the daily operations of the bus including the crew involved, as well as regular maintenance and cleaning. The film features wonderful color shots of red double decker English busses.
0:07 Title “PMT Presents: Fares Please!”, 0:28 0:53 men bent over tables looking at a diagram of a bus, 1:21 man operating a machine, 1:41 man assembling an engine which is then tested, 2:18 a man testing fuel delivered to each cylinder, 2:27 bus bodies being created, 3:00 men testing a new bus design by driving a course, driving on a racetrack, doing water testing, testing suspension, doing brake testing, 4:54 a newly constructed double decker bus doing a tilt test, 5:27 men preparing routes on a table, 5:43 two men measuring if a tunnel is high enough for a bus to pass, 6:31 measuring distances using a wheel attached to a car, so that bus schedules can be calculated 6:38 animation of a simple bus timetable including crew rests, 8:59 an amination of the busses needed based on peak hours, 10:11 conductors being trained in a classroom, 11:16 drivers being trained about the mechanics of the bus, using a Ribble liveried motor coach 11:32 a student bus driver being taught how to drive, 11:56 meeting of the National Council for the Omnibus Industry, 13:12 an “inspector” speaking to a little girl, 13.51 a ticket inspector asking a woman for her ticket, 14:47 a conductor preparing a “way bill” noting the total earnings and ticket sales, 15:38 women operating hole punching machines that record the way bills, 16:46 mechanic cleaning a bus, 17:04 an engine being taken out of a bus, 17:18 a bus being repainted, 17:46 a bus being automatically washed, 18:22 mechanic greasing the different parts of a bus, 18:53 a man refueling a bus, 19:23 passengers at a bus stop and then getting on a double decker bus, 19:52 a double decker bus letting out passengers in a scenic countryside setting, 20:47 Title “The End”
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[@davidtaylor4832]

A glimpse back to a slower, simpler world and one that l well remember. The roads back then carried but a mere fraction of the traffic they do today.

[@peterlindop4491]

Those days are long gone unfortunately, sadly missed.

[@carlnapp4412]

You express exactly what I feel too.

[@mfbfreak]

All in the name of efficiency and profit...

[@highpath4776]

I didnt realise Coaching Journal produced films. I met John Speed once as the publication was closing down back in the late 1980s as I bought some back numbers from them and a copy of Wheels To The West - The Story of Royal Blue Coaches

[@steeleye2112]

Seventy years on, and I don't know if it applies elsewhere, but in Peterborough we use state of the art tools when it comes to route planning. Can't reveal the entire process as that is sensitive commercial information. All I can attest to is that it involves huge quantities of alcohol, several multi sided dice, no contact with the public as this may result in a dangerous injection of competence and a minimum of 1-2 hours work every single year, without fail. I hear that top Japanese transport planners study this service when creating their own integrated public transport policies.

[@Gannett2011]

"How could we manage without them?" says the commentary. Well, the "good" people at General Motors and the like said "challenge accepted!"...and the rest is history. As someone who can't drive and relies on public transport, it maddens me how car-dependant society is these days, and I watch with sadness films like this from a time when public transport was a key part of the fabric of society.

[@philipheath8265]

Who would have thought that PMT would become part of First Bus? D&G also serve the Potteries. Does anyone remember Berresfords? Arriva also visit Hanley. I now have an O.A.P. bus pass, so use the buses a lot now.

[@highpath4776]

Potteries Motor Traction were unusual in having a 6 day working four peak shift change among its customers, with some from shift changes at some of the staffordshire coal mines and others in the ceramics industry where a lot of workers went home for lunch rather than having works canteens, added to that female workers working around school hours as well. revenue and passenger journeys until the late 1970s was much higher per mile than operators elsewhere.

[@knottyal2428]

Unfortunately those two major industries are now no more. The remaining ceramics business is but a shadow of its former glory!

[@spc0553]

Fascinating old film from sadly lost days. I like the flash of lightning in the storm near the test track!!

[@Watchmaker_Gereon-Schloesser]

As for a true british film I MUST SAY - SPLENDID! xD Soooo wonderful to see! Those days with the RT and Routemaster buses... They got maintenance care like airplanes! And thoses lovely ticket machines! Everything was so finely made - look for that table in the workshop with ROUND corners/shields... WOW. And the music! Even for an Info-Film orchestra music... What for a H.igh Q.uality in these days... No computer dummies... intelligent peoples (mostly). I think humanity needs at max a Zuse4 computer and that's it. I want the HUMAN in the centre not the artifical idiot (A.I.) which programmed by Geroge Soros, Billy Boy Gates and Harari (humans are hackable amimals etc...) THANK YOU Periscope! Take care to stock this great Film! Géréon, a north german (Hannover, Hamburg, Kiel) watchmaker, living close to the lake geneva (switzerland)

[@markjosephbudgieridgard]

Absolutely glorious.... The bus takes townsmen to the country fantastic 😊....

[@jnuttso1]

What a wonderful channel liked and subscribed 👍

[@user-yd9bj3bs8g]

Remember PMT Beresfords Staniers Stoniers North Western Turners etc. 1950's and 1960's. Preserved pmt bus at canvey nuseum essex.

[@philg.2211]

The buses being designed and tested in the first 5 minutes of the film appear to be of BMMO (Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Company) manufacture, so would have been destined to go to the Midland Red bus company.

[@stewartmcmanus3991]

Most of the others were Daimlers.

[@highpath4776]

BMMO somewhat produced the SOS chassis etc for other members of BET group , including Northern General, Trent and it seems here PMT. Later when Midland Red was split up as its Birmingham operations were acquired by WMPTE PMT would become one of the four companies providing admin support to the four new midland red region companies + Caryle Works, as it was privatisation of the then national bus company along with minibus development rapidly change the last strategic plans of NBC.

[@tangerinedream7211]

First PMT is a sad shadow of the PMT pre NBC, the company now has fewer buses overall than just Double Deckers in the late sixties. The bus in the tilt test is a 1956 Daimler jumper, think they were Northern counties bodywork, Atlanteans came 1959/60/61, Fleetlines 1962/4/5, no new DDs until the Bristol VRs in 1974 onwards. Happy days on a bus as a schoolboy.

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

Britain. The land where the phrase "Suck my ticket!" is actually an invitation.

[@whirledpeas3477]

Why do I get "NEW" uploads a week late?

[@stewartmcmanus3991]

My wife and I were both "ducks" when we met in 1968.

[@bazxl57]

Why were you called ducks?

[@staffordian]

​@@bazxl57Ducks short for conductors. Derby's were known as duckies :)

[@jp4712]

Wonderful! Is this film available on a DVD?

[@PeriscopeFilm]

No we do not release films on DVD. Instead we make them available to watch for free on KZbin. ; )

[@asd36f]

I ‘ate you Butler!

[@e1m1heretic49]

Remember jim crow laws get to the back of the bus.

[@johnryno]

🍆🍆🍆

[@keithskelhorne3993]

not on British buses :)

[@johnrudy9404]

What? I sense some malcontent.

[@highpath4776]

@@keithskelhorne3993 The fun one in the UK was Hants and Dorset single deckers where front entrances (behind the front wheels) were used with a smoking saloon section to the rear - behind the rear wheels. Supposedly tipped the centre of gravity so much that humped bridges could be more than interesting to cross over.

[@highpath4776]

@@johnrudy9404 I hadnt noticed the problem with Bristol Omnibus Co and its recruitment ban on immigrants as staff employees in the early 1960s as I was in London where all were welcome , certainly at the basic Driver (not always conductor) and maintenance staff. It did appear to be a tacit policy though that migrant workers were not promoted to route controller/ inspector grades or depot foremen. but they could, and did, have positions as trade union reps.