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    Birmingham Air Raids

    There was a two page article in yesterday's Sunday Mercury about the Heinkel bomber which was shot down over Birmingham and crashed into houses in Smethwick in April 1941. It is possible to view this article via the Birmingham Mail -...
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    Birmingham Air Raids

    I note that BBC television has a 45 minute programme each morning next week (9.15am) covering cities which suffered from the Blitz. Friday is about Birmingham's ordeal.
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    Birmingham Air Raids

    This book can be seen in W H Smith (Birmingham City Centre) and Ian Allan Bookshop (Ethel Street, Birmingham).
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    Birmingham Air Raids

    It is 75 years ago this month that Birmingham's experience of the blitz started. This was a month ahead of the start of the London blitz. Although for Birmingham September was relatively quiet, things were to greatly intensify during October and November. This month there is a new book called...
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    Rover factories in Birmingham

    Thanks for the confirmation.
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    Rover factories in Birmingham

    Does anyone know whether the Tyseley factory was working during WW2 (not to be confused with the No 1 shadow factory at Acocks Green)?
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    Midland Red double deckers

    Just to let you know that the book More Room on Top: The Midland Red BMMO D9 & D10 which has been out of print for a couple of years has just been reprinted, albeit a short run. So, if you missed out on getting your copy don't hang around this time!
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    Accles & Pollock, also Bates Iron Foundry

    Does anyone know on what date(s) Accles & Pollock of Oldbury was bombed in WW2? Also, what was the full company name of Bates Iron Foundry of Hospital Street, Walsall?
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    Birmingham Boundaries

    Thanks folks. I think I have come to the conclusion that the surrounding authorities were Bromsgrove, Oldbury, Smethwick, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Walsall and West Bromwich.
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    Birmingham Boundaries

    My query about the local authorities which bordered Birmingham County Borough is a geographic query, not directed to births, marriages and deaths. I acknowledge that Solihull was not a Borough. Perhaps I should have used the term 'neighbouring local authorities'.
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    Birmingham Corporation Gasworks

    Which Birmingham district was the Adderley Street Gasworks (was it perhaps Bordesley or Deritend) and Windsor Street Gasworks? Thanks.
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    Birmingham Factories in the War

    Thank you. The Messenger & Sons is a definite confirmation. From what you quote I cannot be certain that the Masters Thos. & Son is the same outfit as at West Bromwich. Don't understand what Kenrick sfc means.....
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    Birmingham Factories in the War

    I am compiling an index of factories/companies which contributed to the war effort. I need to know the correct way of presenting the following (i.e. are they co-limited or what?) 1) Masters and (or is it &?) Son of West Bromwich 2) Messenger and (&?) Sons of Greet 3) SU Carburettors A bit...
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    Gec Magnet Landor Street

    Thank you for this. My own understanding was that it was at Adderley Park so that is pretty much right, isn't it?
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    Gec Magnet Landor Street

    I believe that GEC had a factory in Birmingham producing domestic appliances under the trade name Magnet. Does anyone know where this particular GEC factory was located? It was not the Witton site.
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    55th Anniversary of the opening of the M1

    Apocryphal anecdotes abound about the Midland Red motorway coaches. However, the facts may be read in my book Midland Red Motorway Coaches. (The speedo only went up to 80mph so anything above that can only be guesswork.) The later CM6 was more powerful than the CM5 and on the downhill could...
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    55th Anniversary of the opening of the M1

    Midland Red was a large bus/coach operator based in Birmingham and built its own vehicles in Edgbaston. When the M1 motorway opened 55 years ago (2nd November 1959), it was known as the Birmingham-London motorway. Midland Red had designed and built an 80 mph coach which was available on day one...
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    Where and when was this incident?

    Thanks to those who have responded. The fact is that the Green Goddesses make it a post-war scene. Someone (not on the forum) has suggested that it is to do with the Halfords fire in Corporation Street in 1955.
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    Where and when was this incident?

    I want to establish whether this photograph is a post-war scene or (which I doubt) a wartime bomb incident. Identifying the age of the fire appliances should solve this.
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