Manchester-Blackpool-Manchester service timetable - Summer 1932

From the early days a Manchester-Blackpool coach service was operated jointly by Lancashire United Transport, North Western Road Car Company and Ribble Motor Services linked industrial Manchester with the Lancashire coastal resort of Blackpool travelling via Bolton, Chorley and Preston.

In the 'Roadway Motor Coach Timetable' for the Summer of 1932 it was shown under the Ribble heading with the service number 1X. It later became the famous X60. The three journeys that became the X70 operating via Westhoughton rather than Bolton are also shown.

The three main operators had cornered the market for this route. The publication also showed three other services operated between Manchester and Blackpool but they were hardly serious competitors. Blackpool to Oldham services were operated by two Blackpool based operators, M & H Motors (five trips daily) and John Bull (Wood Bros) (one trip from Blackpool in the morning returning from Oldham in the late afternoon. Robin Hood of Nottingham also had two daily services through Manchester on their Nottingham to Blackpool service.