Lloyd
master brummie
Re the Mayrow all-steel body (BB262) -
I think this was a product of James Jacob Mayrow (who may have been Russian) and who held patents for motor vehicle and aircraft body construction in metal, and who was proprietor of the Aircraft Steel Construction Company, London, formed October 1917. It is thought the body was not used, recorded as delivered in 1920 and returned in 1921.
All-metal bodies were tried experimentally later, BB1952 was a Metro-Cammell body was built for 'IM' type chassis in 1932, and some of the Brush bodies for REDD type double deckers (possibly including some of the lowbridge ones for Potteries Motor traction, with offside sunken gangways to the upper saloon) had experimental metal frames as well as the batch bodied by Metro Cammell (one of which miraculously survives).
I think this was a product of James Jacob Mayrow (who may have been Russian) and who held patents for motor vehicle and aircraft body construction in metal, and who was proprietor of the Aircraft Steel Construction Company, London, formed October 1917. It is thought the body was not used, recorded as delivered in 1920 and returned in 1921.
All-metal bodies were tried experimentally later, BB1952 was a Metro-Cammell body was built for 'IM' type chassis in 1932, and some of the Brush bodies for REDD type double deckers (possibly including some of the lowbridge ones for Potteries Motor traction, with offside sunken gangways to the upper saloon) had experimental metal frames as well as the batch bodied by Metro Cammell (one of which miraculously survives).