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In mot sure where this agency was lloyd, other than Bearwood,so i would imagine it was the same place you refered to. Regards Bill

Rather nice rear view of 719 FHA Lloyd, rear views are quite rare, I suppose not many tale pics of the back end of buses(hee hee) Anyway, this coach was sold to Charlton-on-Otmoor motor services in Oxfordshire and judging by the jpeg title on Lloyds pic this photo was taken when it was...

Gentleman, I thank lloyd for posting those three pics, I have the same ones in my collection plus a few notes about their subsequent existance after leaving Gliderways. The Decker, as LLoyd mentions, has a utility body by N.C.M.E and was to the lowbridge design on a Leyland TD7 chassis. GHA...

We used to go to the Tower in Edgebaston, jnown then as the "Gay Tower" the "Gay" was removed later I believe. The resident bands were Harvest and Johny Johnson?? or something like that and of course it featured the revolving stage. I met a rather nice girl from Wordsley who was then a...

In 1964 our family went to the Isle of Wight, by train. I remember Dad buying the tickets from a travel agent in Bearwood, if my memory serves me correctly. Being something of a GWR enthusiast I was amazed to see that the tickets were printed with GWR markings on them, some 16 years after the...

Stockland Garage Ltd also took the Bearwood based Gliderways Coaches company over, according to records I have, in May 1963. Gliderways was a company with a fine reputation for high quality coaches backed up with a high quality service. Using an attractive livery of Birch Grey with Maroon...

John, your avatar looks interesting, I keep seeing what looks like a D7 with a front entrance.which never existed!!!!

I hope no one will mind me posting this here as strictly speaking Im out of the Birmingham boundary by I guess, a few miles. Does anyone here have any connections with "The Birmid" it always seemed that local people always used the definite article when referring to it. I worked for...

My Mum worked at Averys before the war, I seem to remember she was involved with the manufacture of petrol pumps. As already mentioned in this thread, it can be quite difficult at times deciding if a place is in Birmingham or Smethwick. I suppose its the same today, postal addresses are not...

Hi Dave, do you know which month Smethwick started with the "B" in 64? I thought some of the Midland Red D9s srom 64 has XXXX HA marks. Regarding the link re Birmingham regs......looks like a clear case of "Great Minds" ect. Cheers Bill

I remember the big air compressors they used to make. I used to work at Dartmouth Auto Castings No3 Foundry, Rabone Lane Smethwick, now trading, I believe, as Darcast Crankshafts. They had quite a few Bellis and Morcom Compressors for the mainly air operated moulding machines. Some time later...

Whilst typing this, I am about a metre away from an Eddystone 730/4 Still works as well but not much happens on the short wave these days!

Does anyone know if Kenneth Horne, of round the horne fame, was managing director of this company at one time, I seem to remember reading that he was. Or was I dreaming?

Some superb pictures you have there Degsey. My favourites were the Arab IVs, I spent many hours riding these on the Quinton 9, I can just remember them when fairly new with their wheel trims . I think the front trims went first closeley followed by the rear trims. I believe they were blamed for...

I rather suspect the film to video transfering has accidently speeded the rate these buses were travelling at, bur really nice shots and sound as well. Did anyone notice the BCT Daimler with the non standard "Tin front" more akin to the later Daimlers?

TS3 engines were designed by Tilling Stevens, probably better known for their Petrol-Electric buses operated by Midland Red in the 1920s The 3 denoted three cylinders with six opposed pistons and a supercharger thrown in for good measure!! Operating on the two stroke principal they made a...

I have since found this, hopefully pasted here https://homepage.ntlworld.com/johnstonrh/a30a35/regnos/index.htm if you open the REGYEARS.ZIP it appears to give the exact month that the registration marks were issued.......... If I am reading this correctly I am wrong about my 748 LOE being a...

Dave, I am lead to believe Birmigham did not fall in line and use the 64 "B" suffix, Im pretty certain my 1100 was registered in early Jan 1964, I belive quite a few Birmigham Daimler Fleetline buses delivered in 1964 also carried "reverse" numbers , ok it could be argued that those blocks had...

My First car was an Austin 1100, reg 748 LOE, it was registered in 1964 but I suspect the car was a late 1963 as it had no synchro on first and the gear lever had a slight bend to it, I believe that the all synchro boxes had a straight lever, can anyone confirm this? It was a lovely car, I...

Re: Refuge Collecting Vehicles Those really are nice pics, might sound a bit odd raving on about refuse trucks but they do serve a really useful job, which, in my book, makes them well worth the time. I can just remember the S&D trucks emptying the Bins in Devon Road, Warley, behind the cock...