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Birmingham buses

Re: Bus registrations

Ok thanks for that Radio much appreciated afraid i havent been able to see the whole site still trying to work out what forum's to go to .but i am getting there .!
 
Re: Bus registrations

Had one of those the faster you drove n the rain ..the slower the window wipers would work very dodgy ..
 
Have only just really looked at this site, think my Grandad would have loved it, he was a bus driver but sadly died of TB lung in 1945. He used to drive the 45 bus and his ashes are scattered along that route.
What sort of bus would he have driven back then, can someone tell me?
Sue
 
These Leylands (2231-2265) were found in small numbers at several garages as staff and special needs buses (as at Hockley) but were only really used in real service on the 27 route,from (at various times) Selly Oak or Yardley Wood.
 
Actually, the routes involved were :Midland Red 118 (birmingham-Walsall)
119 (birmingham-Scott Arms)
188 (birmingham-beeches estate)

These were replaced by Birmingham Corporation routes 51 birmingham-scott arms
52 birmingham-beeches estate
and a new variation 59 birmingham-booths farm

The midland red 118 walsall continued for some years after WMPTE was formed in 1969 until,in 1973,the PTE took over the Midland Red routes in West Midlands County
and integrated the 51 and the 118 into a birmingham-walsall route numbered 51,with scott arms shorts numbered 51E.
 
My only recollection of seeing BCT single deckers in service was on the Airport service from the old Air Terminal which used to be in Easy Row at the side of what is now Baskerville House but used to be called the Civic Centre.
 
sistersue61 said:
Have only just really looked at this site, think my Grandad would have loved it, he was a bus driver but sadly died of TB lung in 1945. He used to drive the 45 bus and his ashes are scattered along that route.
What sort of bus would he have driven back then, can someone tell me?
Sue
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Most of the Birmingham fleet at that time was Daimer COG5 double deckers, (Commercial, Oil [diesel] engine, Gardner [engine maker] 5 [cylinder engine]).
Over 800 were put into service between 1933 and 1940, and most survived the war. One survives, at the Wythall museum, no 1107.

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I think the single decker Leyland Tiger was the most bueatiful of all the bus's when young, and stick's in my mind as the bus of the 50's.
paul
 
I had a very old Ex Birmingham police car in the 70's, it was a Wolsey 6/66, reg No, Rod 90. do you know it would be worth thousands if I had it still.
paul
 
I can assure you Mr grain that the car came with the old carboard log book, and was used by the Birmingham City Traffic Patrol, I owned the car in the mid 70's and purchased it in Cambridge, the first registration stamp was Birmingham.
paul
 
A very interesting website is The Chiltern Vehicle Preservation Group which can be found on https://www.cvpg.co.uk/REG.pdf It gives a lot of information on vehicle registrations. If you scroll down several pages you will find where all registrations were issued including the Birmingham "O" also the Birmingham "VP". It is in Adobe format and can be printed off if required. I came across it yesterday.
Regards, Roverman
 
Really Bernie :cool: I bet he was rushing back to the garage the way he`s driving that bus
around the island :)............ ragga :)
 
It's a wonder there is no smoke coming off the rear nearside tyre as the wheelarch must be in contact with it!
 
Apparently Michael says the worst of all was a three bell load out of town at rush hour. On the 56 turning left at the gate Saltley to go up Washwood Heath Road, trying to make up time. When the bus banked over and the front offside wheel used to catch on the wheel arch which was of course inside the drivers cab. Scary eh!!
 
Wendy. Only topped by 3 bell load at rush hour round Lancaster Circus on the 14,55,26 with the platform on fleetlines making contact with the road.
 
I can remember the rear wheels of the Guy standards rubbing the wheelarches, cornering flat out with the engine roar hardly reduced by the 'straight through' silencers they had!
 
Thanks for that Lloyd, that's another place to visit on the list for mom and dad - think I will have to give up work to fit all the places in lol
Sue
 
ragga said:
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ............ what is a 3 bell load ??
ragga :confused2:
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OK, conductors signals to driver, using bells:
1 ring - stop at next stop.
2 rings - Safe to proceed (go).
3 rings - Full up, don't stop to pick up passengers (until some get off).
4 rings - There's a problem - stop NOW. (Between stops if necessary).
 
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