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All good stuff Bert. Thanks for that. Great to see "real" buses again.

Tight hold. Ding ding!

Remember the jokey Birkenhead conductor, used to say 'HOLD me TIGHT'?

Great pics Bert,thankyou!

The old story about the bus colours was that the painters asked what the colour should be. They were referred to the then Director, whose name was Mr Green. They were told "See green". So they painted the bus fleet in Sea Green, (not Pea green as someone else suggested).
Regarding the "Kick your keys into Wallasey" An unfortunate discovery of the then Mayor of Birkenhead revealed his sexual orientation to be what we now call Gay. He claimed his activities in a field, observed by the police, were entirely innocent as "He was looking for his car keys". He was not generally believed!

Birkenhead was Birkenhead and Wallsaey was Wallasey.
The both had great civic pride as well as their own busses, police, fire, ambulances etc. There was always a friendly rivalry between them. They added colour - blue and yellow for the busses.
I do remember that there was a great anger when both boroughs were abolished and lumped in with that place on the other side of the Mersey (Merseyside)
Tell me if out of order

Your recollections on that are accurate, there was indeed discontent about the 'amalgamation' and loss of distinct Boroughs