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Over the last couple of years I have been involved with the Black Country Living museum's Transport Group mainly working with a small team restoring GEA 174 en ex West Bromwich Daimler but thats another story. The reason for this post is that usually at weekends in the summer the trolleybuses...

Actually Neville I have seen the odd coalman about and when I use the term"odd" I mean the occasional one.

A ex BCT buses now preserved........... The top the BCT blue, which I wrongly thought was "Cobalt blue" on the superbly finished 2548 a Guy Arab 1V from the early 1950s, the lower photo has to the right the pre war Daimler COG5, 1107 in BCT livery parked next to a more modern rear engined...

Thanks Jenny, staying with the Cliff Adams theme, here is a link to a piece of music Cliff wrote for a rather well known cigarette advert which i think will be well remembered by people here who are of a certain age...

I have not visited this excellent thread for some time and I noticed the mention of Jack Jackson and his show, was this the one transmitted on Saturdays around lunchtime and was rather cleverly made up of short out-takes from various radio programmes then nicely edited together to provide a...

I wonder if Sandwell libraries might be able to help, a long shot but worth a try.

Thanks postie, we need the actual unit that houses the semaphore arms and of course the semaphore unit itself, again thanks for your interest.

Thanks for that Simon, and thanks for your kind comments.

Thanks very much for all that fascinating information, it does fully expalin why I was at the factory carrying the Coventry-Eagle name in Wills St, Smethwick which I think was off the cape Hill or at least in that area? I just wish, as I have said before, that I still had the bike! Thanks again...

Ladies and Gentleman, I have decided to post a "wanted" here and despite it being a rather long shot my motto is "Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained" well to be honest it's not my motto really as mine is propably unprintable! However back to my reason for posting, as some of you might know, well...

What a great Pic Stitcher.

There are certain mathematical questions that would need a calculator unless the candidate was a natural mathematician and there are very few of those about. Its the abliity to understand how to apply the calculator thats important and dont forget before calculators there were slide rules.

Great Pic Stitcher, I had the opportunity to drive a trolley bus a few weeks back and they are interesting to say the least. The accelerator is on the left and the brake pedal on the right. They have really good acceleration, electric motors can quickly develop plenty of power. The skill for...

I came across this whilst looking around "youtube" I decided not to post it in the transport section as not everyone is going to look in there and I think maybe a few here might recongise a few faces? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll2gBdB3AHU&feature=g-vrec&context=G2840a3fRVAAAAAAAABQ...

I was with DAC from 1967 until 1979 when DAC No1 foundry closed. DAC No2 at Colliery Road, West Bromwich carried on for a year or so but then also closed, what was DAC No3 Rabone Lane, Smethwick, is still very much in operation . What was Birmid-Qualcast, after the 1967 merger, was bought by...

Nice Model lloyd, W& T methinks. Cheers :)

Oi Lloyd, never mind posting stuff about London, have you finished restoring the REDD yet?? :)

Hello Terry, sorry to hear that your dad lost his life at MMC. I well remember the "Kremlin" and the previous canteen althought I rarely used either of them. From memory i think the new canteen was built in the early to mid 70s. I seem to remember it was also called "The Gin Palace" There was...

Hello Mike, well that certainly explains where the term "Winchester" came from, I had been associated with laboratories for over 40years and I cannot remember if they were officially still called Winchester when I first started in the business in 1968, it might be that some of the staff just...

I agree roverman they were called carboys, I think they were often transported in some sort of outer protection filled with straw. Talking of chemical containers, class bottles that carried about 2.25 litres of acid usually concentrated and other substances for that matter like strong alakines...