Re: On the buses
Helllo Inspector Linnecor!!!
One of the many positions I held at WMPTE Summer Lane was PSV Licence Clerk, and it was my job to renew all the PSV and HGV Licences for the drivers and engineers in the 14 Birmingham Bus Garages, and I used to go weekly to the Traffic Commissioners in Broad Street.
In 1982, I then moved out to work as the Mileage Clerk based in the Engineers Office at Washwood Heath Garage and my boss was John Loach the Garage Engineer, with Ted Lane and Johnny Wem as the Garage Foremen
I then moved upstairs into the New Build and became the Admin Services Assistant, and worked with Olive Prosser, Jill Brewer, Karen Simkin, Anne Morley, and Teresa Freeman.
When I started in 1976 the 14 Birmingham Garages were:
Acocks Green, Cotteridge, Coventry Road, Harborne, Hockley, Lea Hall, Liverpool Street, Miller Street, Perry Barr, Quinton, Selly Oak, Sutton, Washwood Heath and Yardley Wood.
The Training School for Drivers was at Perry Barr, and the Training School for Apprentices was at Moseley Road. Sheepcote Street was used to store scrap buses, and Tyburn Road was the repair shop.