A regular in Stafford on market days on the service from Market Drayton was this Duple Dominant bodied Bedford of Butters. Today Stafford is once more awash with the colours of Independents but they do not have the pedigree of Greatrex, Austins, Bassetts or this Shropshire firm which if I remember rightly started in about 1922.
Butters of Childs Ercall.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the PSV Circle publication "The Independent Stage Carriage Operators of Shropshire" (2PD5 - September 1971) the business was formed by Mr C H Butter in 1927. By 1971 is was a partnership between C N & S Butter and P R Managh - I remember them operating a Market Drayton Town Service to Tern Hill during my time in the transport industry in Shropshire in the late 1980's.
Thanks they were operating for many years and probably survived by staying small. DMaybe the mantra after Degregulation should have been expand to extinction.
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