 Birmingham City Transport was acknowledged as one of the country's finest transport undertakings.An employee of a neighbouring undertaking once said enviously that one could eat off the floor of a Birmingham bus.Birmingham City Transport ceased to exist at midnight 30 September 1969 when it became the largest component of the new West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive, which at the same time took over the municipal undertakings of Walsall, West Bromwich and Wolverhampton.