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Up to now I hadn't seen a rear-end view of 2847 with its platform conversion. The result is far from pretty to put it mildly!

Thanks for that Sue

The "Pay as you enter" sign confirms it as being converted for OMO, it does look rather like a clippie behind but might just be a passenger in a dark coat.

This is very topical for me as I am planning to visit the Lickeys on my next visit to Birmingham in June. Sadly I won't be able to go by tram. I was looking for the 62 bus that went to Rednal but it seems to have gone as well, the nearest I found was an X62 which appears to go past the old...

Coventry also had a large number of Daimlers with this type of fibre-glass front and West Bromwich had some as well. This design became popular with several other operators as well.

That really is a superb photo of JOJ880 ragga, as you say everything about it is classic, the lawnmowers, van, clock and especially the Daimler itself!

There seems to be an awful lot of former bus depots being demolished in recent times leaving nothing but a photographic record and memories as another link with the past is gone.

Thanks Old Boy, will have to get up for a look. Regards 6918.

Just looking through David Harvey's book "City to the Lickeys", a very nice history and photographic record of the bus and tram routes from this area. Is the Lickeys worth a visit these days, worth putting on my list for my next Birmingham visit?

Sounds like something I would do Bill!! I remember growing up in Dublin that the city was full of electrics usually as milk floats, bread vans and laundry vans. Birmingham and other cities would have been the same. Then from the early 1980's they died a death. The main grievances with them were...

There is an excellent collection of electric vehicles including many milk floats at Wythall Transport Museum (Bammot). If there is an electric vehicle heaven this is it!!

Sadly transport history is all to often dismissed or neglected by local councils and other local or national authorities.

I really hope it's not the end for Aston Manor, last October I was there and enjoyed the place so much, the volunteers were telling me of how serious the situation was. The future of some of the vehicles can't be guaranteed if the worst happens and that would be tragic.

Thanks Bill for those updates. I'm a bit disappointed that both 78 and the REDD are no further on than when they arrived, two now unique vehicles. I really hope trolleybuses continue to be operated on the site even it is against the wishes of the current administration.

Very interesting and impressive that a small operator would go to the effort of designing a front panel with their name incorporated. Full front rebuilds of half cabs was a trend of the time and very effective in modernising the whole coach to keep up with new underfloors entering service.

On the right of the photo is a typical Bedford OB of the era. Taking centre stage is a Dennis Lancet but what is the coach to the far left? Is the "RO" visible on the front part of the word Rowe who built a small number of buses and coaches in the 1950's?

After consulting various publications I still can't find a date when the conductresses finished up after World War One. By the middle of 1917 there were 1,260 women employed by Birmingham Corporation Transport (not all as conductresses obviously) and I would imagine this number remained much the...

Thanks Lloyd for filling in some of the gaps on Wolverhampton 78. When it was rescued and removed from the farm it was towed on this side of the Irish Sea by a cut down Leyland Titan OPD2/10 then in use as a "tow car" by the Transport Museum Society of Ireland. So far I have never had a chance...

Thanks Thylacine. Wolverhampton 78 was found on a Co. Kilkenny farm. God knows how it got to Ireland or why as the only trolleybus system in Ireland was Belfast which is a very long way from Kilkenny! Belfast did buy some newer trolleys from Wolverhampton in 1952 in the shape of Park Royal...

So far I have not managed to do the Outer Circle on my visits to Birmingham, it's top of my list the next time I get over!