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birmingham corporation bus clock in for drivers

My father worked at all BCT garages as a plumber. I believe the summer parties were held at the BCT Stadium in Billesley which I think is still there. I remember going to lots of them and the christmas parties at Perry Barr Garage. We also went on day trips sometimes using a single decker.
 
Hello Sheldontony, Yes I too remember the Christmas Show at Wellhead Lane and the singalong with songs like Rudolph the rednosed reindeer.
To get to Billesley, all areas were supplied with a bus with a large paper number stuck to the front passenger window so that we knew which bus to get for the ride back home. Billesley seemed a faraway place to a kid from Perry Common!
 
Same here, we lived in Sheldon so had to go to the Yew Tree and then number 11 to Billesley. I actually hated the pantomimes but made to go. Last time I remember going to the Stadium was early 80's when my father retired and held a party there.
 
Hi guys, i remember the pantomimes but didn't know where they were, my cousin used to come with me. We lived in Sheldon and the clock was on the corner of Garretts Green and Brinsley Road, opposite the Chestnuts pub. That wasn't my Dads route but he came home on that bus and Inspected it on his way home. I think he was the most feared Inspector on B.C.T. in his day lol They had a life size cut out of him at the entrance to Lea Hall, saying Are you turned out like this, or something like that. Im not sure when he started because he went in the Army, then came home and worked at Coventry Road for a while before the war then after the war came home and took up him former job till he retired on health grounds in about 1966
 
I must have travelled with your Dad on many an occasion. Does he remember Mr Wall, the inspector who used to live in Court Lane. I lived there 1936 to 1959 and after the war we enjoyed the new GOE Daimlers, the HOV Leylands (particularly 1749) and when they arrived the Crossleys. In Ian Allans ABC of Birmingham Buses, I am sitting upstairs in a Portland Road (route 7) at Victoria Square. The best days were on football days at Villa Park, when the older buses would be diverted to run football specials between the City and Witton. And in the period after the war, it could be anything from piano front AEC to one of Hockleys pre war Leylands. And of course the utility Guys and Daimlers....remember those wooden seats? There was one driver/conductor team who would let us clock for him. My aunt was a clippie out of Harborne during the war and granddad worked at the Carlisle Road works of Midland Red.
 
not sure how many are still dotted around on the pavements of brum but here is part of a bundy clock...pic taken today on the walsall road

lyn
 

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Amazed it's still there Lyn. Although maybe these were sunk into concrete or something similar? Maybe they're difficult to remove. Well spotted. Viv.
 
hi phil yes i would say its the same clock looks to be on the exact spot...thanks for the photo

lyn
 
Built specifically for the American market I seem to remember, not sure how many were actually exported, Bakelite knobs for the fascia and the controls and originally two flying 'A's' on the bonnet one over each front wheel, but not only that the social; history in that picture, George Mason, Paynes and the Schweppes advert on the bus. Can any one identify the estate parked in front of the Ford, is it an early escort and on the pavement is that the front of the original Capri?
 
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