The First Group who bought out the West Yorkshire PTE as happened elsewhere in the Ninties suffered a lot of competition from smaller operators who undercut fares to win traffic. To counter the competition without losing face large operators set up low cost budget operations like Quickstep in Leeds. Just like the smaller operators busy eating away at their potential profits the large Yourkshire operator favoured buses like redundant Leyland National Mark1 buses such as this example which started life with another PTE on Merseyside. One of the most interesting aspects of the take-over-culture surrounding the aquisitive nature of Deregulation was the movement of buses between units and one needed to be something of an anorak to know what came from where and how. Thankfully by this time I was not particularly interested in numbers game and was able to just love em and leave em.
Quickstep was not set up by a larger company.it was initially an independent company set up by Nigel Jollif later sold to First Bus
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