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Not sure whether this qualifies as first or second generation steam coaches and probably has no Midlands connection. Built in 1875 this is a Grenville steam carriage and appears to have been still active c.1950's from the attire of the passengers and crowds watching it pass (Possibly on a VCC...

Sir, that Lloyd has kicked my shin under the desk and said I had dozed off when you gave out homework as second generation steam buses but I didn't and here is a Brailes - Stratford-upon-Avon Straker. It's not the best of views as it is blown up (pardon the pun Sir) from a cigarette card sized...

The remainder of our journey to Liberec was without incident although we were rather taken aback to overtake horse drawn carts twice on the motorway! On arrival in Liberec our first port of call was to check in at our hotel , the Dum Recreance, another high rise building but this time purpose...

On leaving Prague we were instructed that if we got split up on the motorway we should look for a service area with an airliner for our lunchstop and to reform the convoy for the next leg of the journey. An airliner? we said, oh well, this is Czechoslovakia. In the event we all stayed together...

Pleez Sir can I now be ink monitor as well as a prefect pleez Sir, the gurl sat next to me will be so impressed Sir pleez (Creep Creep).:beam:

Sadly Polly the pool is now derelict and awaiting redevelopment.. If you trawl through earlier postings on this thread you will find more about it. What hasn't changed much over the years is the Grand Atlantic Hotel over from The Pool and seen here after the severe gales in September 1903 that...

Re: General Motors "Lear" Steam Coach 1973. [QUOTE=Thylacine; But on the side of the vehicle itself is the fleetname "STEAM COACH", which appears to be more accurate terminology. However, the 1973-1974 picture (below right; which I suspect is of the same vehicle) clearly calls it a "steam bus"...

Ah, my good and honourable skoolfiend Molesworth, unfortunately I don't have much to add other than the company was registered with a capital of £350,000 (a considerable amount in the 1800's) and proposed to pave the complete route for it's own coaches, and charge other users a toll, but nothing...

Call me a traditionalist if you like but I voted for that design and it hasn't let us down, the outline has just the right affinity to the burnt down design to make it still the Grand Pier for everyone, old and new. Great photos Polly. This will be me next month - Just arrived at...

Oo er sorry Sir, I just had a nightmare in which after 1831 the British Government passed a series of prohibitive Bills to discourage the development of steam road vehicles. Fortunately the superhero of his day, Sir Goldsworthy Gurney (also my boyhood hero - crowd cheers loudly) wades in and...

I fear that all this shilly shallying of the steam carriage movement will bring down the the wrath of the British Government upon it's head and I predict doom, doom and thrice doom come 1831. Just you mark my words! Apart from that I shall slumber on at the back of the class - zzz

Brilliant news Dave and belated thanks for your photos Elizabeth. Seen here is the new seafront - in 1896 that is! I must confess I can't figure out which bit of the seafront it would be today though.

After a leisurely latish continental breakfast preplated and dropped in front of us by the non smiling moonlighting road building waitress we fell in behind Red Leader in the Ford estate and the RM for the final leg to Liberec (pronounced Liberetz). A lunch stop would be made at a motorway rest...

We had bought our tram tickets at the hotel reception which we self punched on the tram in a small machine inside the doors. As a group of English (and one Irishman) in blue uniforms we got some strange looks, not least from the motorman. Our host was amused that many thought we were police of...

Thanks again Wendy, I don't know of any company tie up between the two companys and Maudsleys ended up as part of the American Rockwell organisation. In trying to find out a bit more I have found that some sources refer to the the firm as Maudsley Motor Co and others to the Maudslay Motor Co...

Any livery other than red and cream is all over advertising, a then new source of income that D.P.Prague was certainly cashing in on. Mike

SNAP! I win:P

Aiden Molesworth stopp pulling that gurls pigtails or I won't show you these pictures wot I hav found for you of a Leyland Steam Mower.

Thanks Wendy, can I sit next to you in klass? I'll carry your satchel for you. Your mention of the automated wash interested me as Maudsley moved to Great Alne, Alcester and a firm from Alcester supplied bus wash machines to both Midland Red and the BCT. Sorry Mr Thylacine Sir, I got distracted...

Thats right Thylacine, that is a traditional diamond pantograph of which a smaller version was also used in Blackpool. It is indeed my shadow in the second shot there. The mysteries of the fleetnumbering you have already solved (which I didn't know anyway to be honest!). Many thanks for adding...