West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive
The West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (WMPTE) was the public body responsible for public transport in the West Midlands metropolitan county in the United Kingdom from 1969 until 2016. The organisation operated under the name Centro from 1990, and was publicly branded as Network West Midlands from 2005.
WMPTE's headquarters in Birmingham
Buses in WMPTE livery, in 1975
Class 323 in the original Centro livery at Birmingham New Street in January 2008
Class 150 in the later Centro livery at Brmingham Moor Street in September 2007
West Midlands is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the larger West Midlands region of England. A landlocked county, it is bordered by Staffordshire to the north and west, Worcestershire to the south, and is surrounded by Warwickshire to the east. The largest settlement is the city of Birmingham.
Image: Birmingham Skyline from Edgbaston Cricket Ground (cropped, edited)
Image: Dudley Castle panoramio Tanya Dedyukhina (2)
The leaping jaguar mascot outside the car company's head office south of Coventry
Cadbury in Birmingham