On 1 April 1974, the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive was
created by merging the municipal bus fleets of Bradford City Transport,
Halifax Corporation with Calderdale Joint Omnibus Committee,
Huddersfield Joint Omnibus Committee and Leeds City Transport. The new
WYPTE was divided into four districts: Bradford, Calderdale (previously
Halifax and Todmorden), Kirklees (previously Huddersfield) and Leeds. A
new livery of cream and light green slowly but surely began to replace
the blue and cream of Bradford, the orange, green and cream of Halifax,
the red and cream of Huddersfield, and the two shades of green of Leeds.
With over 1,500 vehicles and more than 6,000 staff along with the
numerous garage and depot facilities, this was a huge operation. By 1976
changes were being made to the livery - while retaining the colour
scheme much of the lining details were replaced and the district name
under the Metro logo gave way to Metrobus. The photographs in the book
illustrate this process of absorption of the bus fleets of Bradford,
Halifax, Huddersfield and Leeds from before 1974 up to the end of the
decade.