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This is a new name for me as well sticher. Interesting topic:)

Well Jean, if there had been a little bit more leg room I would have probably enjoyed the ride a little bit more. Interestingly some coach operators are down seating there coaches in order to provide more leg room. We recently visited Cologne in a coach operated by Harris of Bromsgrove. This 12...

Having just returned from the highlands on a 15m long, 61 seat coach I have nothing to enthuse about at the moment!!

I have quite a reasonably large collection of coach photos from various dealers and some are probably now quite rare, I have never shared them as I suspect that they are still probably available and the copyright owner would be well within their rights to complain. I store some of my photos that...

I also think Kenzies operated coaches and were big supporters of the Brighton coach rallies in the 60s

Thanks for the link Lloyd, I had not realised this was on last night,s TV.

I really cannot believe that ugly contraption (the Bus not Boris, well both actually) is being seriously condidered for public service. What is London,s problem with buses? They have had so called tailor made vehicles in pre war times, then the RT which was basically an AEC Regent then...

https://www.kraftfoods.co.uk/kraft/page?Mid=420&PagecRef=420&locale=uken1&siteid=kraft-prd a few more details about products that we will not be having in the house, not that it appears we are using much :D

This is what happens when foreign riff raff are allowed to get these paws on companies like Cadbury. They make statements that give the impression that nothing much will happen then a few months later thay start asset stripping. I thimk we all knew that would happen when the likes of Kraft got...

Im prepared to bet its somewhere between Birmingham and Kingstanding.:DBut dont quote me on it!!

I have had long connections with Smethwick with Relatives living near by and it was where I worked for twelve years. My childhood memories are blurred but I remember the goods yard at Rolfe St station, I think a coal merchant was there as well. My dad worked at a company in Rolfe St a company...

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This is quite odd because Im was sure I had suscribed to an old thread about Warley Abbey some time back. Until late 1957 we lived in Devon Road, to give some idea of its location it ran parallel to the Hagley Road behing the Cock and Magpies pub, which is probably called something entirely...

Anyone from Smethwick remember this?

I remember that Hoover cleaner, seemed rather a clever idea, maybe the designers were inspired by the hovercraft of the time.

Re: Re Buses Trolley buses were used by many municipal operators . They had many advantages one of whick was , I believe, running costs even taking into account the cost and maintenance of the overhead wires. Both Wolverhampton and Walsall used them until the late 1960s. I often travelled...

Interesting, from where I am sitting it looks like 30 buses to 15 cars!!

I remember theose radio makers. Mullard were probably better known for their valves and other components. Im no expert on these "thermionic devices" but as I understand it the electon flow had to be excited by the built in heaters that eventually failed resulting in a "dead un" I can remember...

Remember the" Rolls Razor Co" ? an interesting excercise in manufacturing and retailing thus cutting the middle man out, it seemed to work for a while but eventually collpased. They made several different types of domestic electrical appliance. the name John Bloom has sprung to mind, I believe...

There was a superb collection of "packaging" ar Gloucester Docks, now unfortunately no longer there. I believe it was the "Robert Opie" collection and consisted of all sorts of once common household products, some of which I rememebr well others that I have never heard of but all fascinating and...