Radiorails
master brummie
I reckon it would have been a busy mobile shop having three staff. It was amazing, in the days when things were more relaxed, how much could be loaded into and on to road vehicles. There were many mobile shops in Britain, particularly in rural areas, and were a great help to busy housewives and country workers.
In Devon, before widespread use of buses, a drovers cart carried people to market once or twice a week. The waggon was usually more than full and had to accommodate articles taken to market and also returned with items purchased there. It was often a tight squeeze - well built farm hands and bucksome ladies - but everyone knew everyone else. It was a great day out, usually, and the weekly chat (gossip) was caught up with.
I never herd of these methods of transport in Warwickshire or Birmingham but in the latter part of the nineteenth and earlier part of the twentieth centuries I am sure they existed in the Midlands as well.
In Devon, before widespread use of buses, a drovers cart carried people to market once or twice a week. The waggon was usually more than full and had to accommodate articles taken to market and also returned with items purchased there. It was often a tight squeeze - well built farm hands and bucksome ladies - but everyone knew everyone else. It was a great day out, usually, and the weekly chat (gossip) was caught up with.
I never herd of these methods of transport in Warwickshire or Birmingham but in the latter part of the nineteenth and earlier part of the twentieth centuries I am sure they existed in the Midlands as well.