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That might just be it Mike, the postcard artist came from Reading

At odd times in this thread I have featured cards with BCT buses hand tinted in the wrong colours. Well, the dreaded postcard artist has struck again! Here is Corporation Street with red Corporation buses and in as late as the 1950's, dated by the yellow Standard Vanguard car in the foreground...

Trevor, Brum trams would be favourite on this thread but there is another thread under Transport - The Trams, called 'A Few Trams for a Change' that is ideal for trams from anywhere else. I shall look forward to seeing any tram pics you have got, between these two threads. (Got your IM thanks-...

In the text of Gavin Booth's book he states that the BMMO abandoned motorbuses in 1907 but goes on to say "When BMMO withdrew from motorbus operation in 1908 , Sidney (now spelt with an i) Garcke bought six Brush double-deckers and brought them to Deal in Kent. Using three of the buses, with the...

Nice shot Trevor, keep 'em a coming please.:thumbsup: Mike

Nice card Aidan, and definitely from some time after 1972 as the Midland Red bus appears to have the National Bus Company corporate fleetname style introduced in that year. Mike

Can't help you with info on Amalgamated Omnibus Works but it might explain why 0-1283 was exhibited at the 1908 Olympia Motor Exhibition. Possibly following a refurb by A.O.W. and exhibited by them? Now if there was a directory of exhibitors for that Show it might throw some light on the A.O.W...

From October 1906 BMMO took delivery of nine Brush "B" double-deck buses (O1283-1291) with 40 hp engines (by Peter Brotherhood according to Midland Red Volume 2 page 222 - not Mutel). It is six of these buses (O1283-1286, O1288 and O1291) which made the 200 mile journey to Deal early in 1908...

Happy St Georges Day (and meet up tomorrow).

ragga, here is the Art Deco style courthouse which is also in Walliscote Grove Road. The Police Station is in the multistory building tacked on to it. Down the other end of the street is the superb Art Deco Odeon Cinema. Mike

Shhhh Thylacine, we don't want any of that tonnes stuff here on the Forum or they will be round to your house with the carbolic soap!(even out in the old Empire:D)

At school in the 50's we sang a hymn about a pilgrim living in a tent, never did figure it out.

Not wishing to go off thread for too long but it appears that the canal bridge diamond warning signs may have been updated and reworded by railway companies (who bought out many canals) to reflect increasing use by motor vehicles. I remember in my younger days reading diamond signs on some...

The diamond shaped sign was of cast iron and a carried a weight prohibition warning to drivers of heavy wagons and 'locomotives' i.e. steamrollers and traction engines. Full size replicas used to be on sale at the Ironbridge Gorge Foundry Museum. By the 1940's and through to the 1970's the...

No, I could never bin it but it would have been had I not rescued it. Better still is if it could go to anyone shown in the photo that might be pleased to receive it.

Mystery Photo found in a Traffic Office drawer at WMT Yardley Wood Garage. Looks like a retirement group photo for the driver up on the bonnet of what is probably former BCT Standard 3225. The location is Hockley Garage and the driver probably worked the 101 route shown on the destination...

Froth, you are right on the nose, well spotted! (notice the dragon connection as well - your Georges Day thread) Phil , that's alright then, now I know it wasn't you. I'm keeping away from those newfangled spell checker gismos if that's what they get up to. Mike

Phil I'm surprised at you - The BULLRING Centre - all in one word - where's the carbolic soap

Nigel when I joined the Red in 1962 there were two services to Wythall from Acocks Green. (Both followed the same route between Acocks Green and the Maypole where there was a Birmingham City Transport terminus outside the Maypole pub). 170 Acocks Green via Olton Church - Shirley - Maypole -...