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    Duck8 Smoke Box number plate?

    Hi Mike :-) The generally accepted reason for them not having number plates on the smokebox is because the smokebox doors were of a thinner metal (or maybe a different metal?) than normally used and it was found that the area around the holding bolts would sometimes 'burn through' under certain...
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    The No.14 bus

    Thanks for that, Phil. As an aside I wonder if you can remember the Ultimate ticket machines, did they contain 5 values or 6. I seem to think they held six different valued ticket rolls, but someone I was talking with recently seems to think that the Birmingham Ultimate machines held only...
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    The No.14 bus

    Absolutely brilliant, thanks a million for that! Now you've raised another question in my mind..... if there was a 14J then in theory at least there must probably have been a 14G and 14H. But no matter, if there was then probably someone will mention it sooner or later! Thanks again, Dave
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    The No.14 bus

    In connection with a current project, I am trying to find out the PRECISE wording displayed on the destination blinds of the buses working the 14 group of routes during the mid-late 1950s The following are confirmed: 14 TILE CROSS ESTATE via KITTS GREEN 14A GOSTA GREEN 14D...
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    Birmingham buses

    Thanks for that, Lloyd! Not seen that pic of it before, obviously very early in its life judging by the large headlights and the thin 'between decks' paint line. Many people quite rightly say that because of its importance in the development of the PD2 it was an ideal preservation project...
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    Birmingham buses

    Re: Bus registrations aw, c'mon Lloyd, you forgot HOJ !
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