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Same goes for me.......best wishes Mike

I have a few more but they are of two foundries I worked at and they are over the border in Smethwick!!

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I have a few more bus pics Astoness, I also have quite a few images of Birmingham that I took in Monochrome and have scanned the negatives,I will be posting a few in the next few days, I have another scanned slide of a Midland Red Dual Purpose but its a bit blurred!! So all i can say is watch...

Well Done PeterW, that must have taken some time.

Well gents, Im glad you found them interesting, the Camera was a relativly inexpensive 35mm and the lighting was far from ideal but not a bad image from a scanned slide methinks.:)

The corrected No9 and the Midland Red Fleetline that was lurking behind it. I have made a few adjustments to the Midland Red photo as it was a quick "Grabbed" shot and was a bit askew thats partly why in the straightening process its been cropped slightly.

I love these buses, the D9 was totally different to the other "Reds"

That was funny Lloyd there are so many TV programmes that make every day events and mundance jobs appear to be dramatic and in so doing are providing plenty of material for the likes of Harry Hill...... made me laugh, still cant understand why those cakes had to make a 130 mile trip though...

Yup Lloyd that would be about the position, wish I had taken a few more.

Re: Refuge Collecting Vehicles It would indeed lloyd.

Re: Refuge Collecting Vehicles The die cast model maker "Oxford Diecast" are making a rather nice, well it looks nice on the photos, model of a Shelvoke and Drewery "Dustcart" with the same cab but a crew version, like the ones depicted in the photos submitted. The body on the model is the...

I confess to watching this programme, I was quite amazed at some of the loads caried, like a trailer of cream cakes being transported some considerable distance to a supermarket, surely there must have beem a bakery a bit nearer, not very "geren " in my book!!! Whilst traveling the M5 on...

So did I Evergreen, in fact I wish I had a fiver for evertime I used the service, it ran on nites as well, so it was useful for getting home after late night clubbing:) Sorry about the fact thats its on its side, I should have corrected it before I posted the image, I apologise for any crooked...

Two Images of old Slides taken in 1966

I have this totally pointless ability to remember odd bits I have seen on TV from back in the dark ages:stare: and one of them was when the MOT tests was first introduced. I have this vivid memory of Ernest Maroles the then Minister for Transport having his car tested and it failed:D from what I...

Wendy we all had a good "titter":Dabout it as we were debating exactly where on the bulkhead we should stick it and should it be flush with the side or slightly inward, we decided on the latter as someone thought thats the correct position and it looked quite asthetically pleasing there:). Im...

Along with a number of other OBE,s Old Bus Enthusiasts, to the uninitiated, with the "old" bit refering to the bus, we are working on an ex West Bromwich Daimler CVG6 with a Weymann Body. The last few weeks we have been working around the front bulkhead area of the Bus and amongst other things...

I liked the Austin 1100 for several reasons, it had plenty of room inside yet was a compact length, something that all the cars from the drawing board of Alex Isigonis ( spelled incorrectly I bet) shared in common with each other. The Hydrolastic suspension ,when maintained properly, gave a...