Another lovely pic, Crom, which follows on nicely from your earlier one.
For the record, the first picture showed a bus on built in 1904. These early motor buses were not very serviceable and in 1907, Midland Red decided to go back to horse buses, of which it was still running over a hundred in the Birmingham area.
The latest picture shows one of the next batch of 12 motor buses, not bought until 1912. These were very successful, and 26 more were delivered in 1913, 30 in 1914, and 22 in 1915. Although Birmingham Corporation took over the former Midland Red routes within Birmingham itself, the Company concentrated on expanding all over the Midlands, even during World War 1, and it continued to grow until about 1970.
Peter