OM
1. You are a genius and so so clever, if only I was young and knew how to use my computer to such effect. Thanks very much for the map that has solved my queries.
2. James Neale & Sons, remembered the name from my days at Cannings, they had plating plant from us and discovered that Google the name and there is a wealth of information. They were motor parts suppliers, windscreens, lights, interior rear view mirrors. The items on Google devoted to them are very interesting and so are the images that appear on the Google page. However they were in Graham Street, on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter, so either it is another James Neale or I am missing something and don't know my tram routes, but as far as I can see Graham Street is nowhere near the 5 or 6 tram route. I now sit here waiting for the corrections to come in, but it is a late 40s/early 50s picture, I can tell from the tram. I have a great affection for public transport, particularly the way buses and trams were painted before the modernists got hold of them and spoilt them with garish swooshes and multicolours or even the latest trend of route coloured buses, Reading is a leader in that field, but even in the West Midlands National Express have the old red, white and blue, the newer 'I am almost a Midland Red bus' and the even newer all singing all dancing Platinum, express, wi-fi fitted double deckers, I have travelled X1 and X10, however to stop meandering away from the subject, there is something about the old black and white misty terraced house street pictures of trams that is almost artistic in its content and as for those embellished by Old Mohawks paint by numbers computer system, what can I say. (Nothing if you have any sense). The interesting thing about these pictures, is that none seem to be in any of the many Birmingham Tram books that I own.
Bob
