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Phil was chief engineer and technical designer at Birfield Extrusions, part of the GKN group, he virtually designed the bells and tulips, part of automotive transmissions, he was the GKN leading expert in these matters. He knew most of technical needs for the extrusion presses used in the UK...

I enjoyed help from Phil many times on BH Forum. We realised that we had both worked for GKN Birfield Companies for many years. RIP.

You MAY be able to find an answer to your query from Weston Body Hardware in Redditch, they held records of WB parts when they closed down, but that was nigh on fifty years ago.

And the "New's Theatre" in High St. and wasn't Jacey in Station St.?

Sometimes the old view is more familiar than the modern one.

Cinephone had the reputation for porn/blue films, only went there the once and I'm sure it was to see West Side Story, honest! Would have been 1965 or thereabouts. Cinema was on corner of Wrentham St/Bristol Rd.

Does anyone else remember getting a passport from the offices, with the arches, just beyond KEVII Could have been in 1950's.

Hi John Trow, remember you being at WB. Can it really be 50+ years since I worked there!

Was this the style of bus that was used in 1960's as mainly "standing only" for transport of workers. I was thinking of the 36 route between Stechford and Tyseley.

I, too played for WB in 1960's, and I do remember Frank Tye. Another two names that I recall were Eme and Cleo McCollin. Some members of the team went on a trip to West Indies, I think to St Kitts, but that may not be right. Strangely my two grand sons and their mom have just had a week's...

There's quite a few pictures in this sequence, I've roughly worked out where No302 would have been and I think this is the nearest I can get, mind you many others are better at manipulating these things!

The garage in this web is on Stoney Lane just beyond "The Yew Tree!

I like that precise sort of proof! Very often on "Ancestry" and the like you finish up with what seems a best guess. Thanks both!

I would have been just four! I have never doubted that I had personal memories of him! Alfred Williams was a Birmingham bus driver at Highgate garage.

And the 1944 death at 80 fits his dob!

A short while ago badgers were being shot as a contributor to bovine TB

Just came across this quote from some twelve months ago. I have since "convinced" myself that this probably not my ggfather. There is another death of a John Williams in Birmingham in 1950 age 88 which almost fits his dob of 1864. (Married 1886 age 22). Is this reasonable slippage? By this time...

Kicked down the road by the latest delays to the station reconstruction?

Trolley Buses? Perhaps the metro will come into it's own when "driverless " tech arrives.