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Birmingham Corporation bus history

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One of the first rust Corporation buses on the Selly Oak/Rednal/Rubery route. Viv.
These ran as a 'feeder' service to the Bristol Road trams, which only ran to Selly Oak at first. As the line was later extended to Northfield, and then Longbridge, the bus service was adjusted. The Daimler chassis of these buses were commandeered by the army in 1914 at the start of 'the Great War' and were replaced in 1915 by Tilling Stevens petrol-electrics, which the military favoured less. These took the bodies and registration numbers of the Daimlers, the licencing regulations allowed such things back then! Here is another of the same batch carrying an ex-Daimler body. (Note: In the photo above the registration looks like "OA 1802", but is actually "OA 1602".)

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