Manchester Community Transport was established as Wythenshawe Mobile in 1980, under the Urban Aid Funding scheme.

On 1 March 2013, Manchester Community Transport acquired Maytree Travel.

[2] However, on 4 April 2013, Maytree Travel ceased trading with services suspended.

[6] As at April 2016, it operated services on 38 routes,[7] In 2018, MCT was acquired by the HCT Group.

[10][11] Many of its services were taken over by Diamond North West, Go North West, First Manchester, Stagecoach Manchester, Go Goodwins, Stotts Tours and Nexus Move