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Its a pity you never got to try me mums chips they were the worlds best but that should come as no surprise she was the worlds best mum. Is a chip pan still a good present for a wedding, Ha Ha. Never see them here but growing up every one had a chip pan. Funny I had forgot the chip pan and...

Shelling peas on a Sunday morning for dinner along my sister as we sat on the stairs listening to Jimmy Clitheroe on the radio We had the mussels on a sarnie during Match of the day with pepper and vinegar and a cuppa. Back when a sandwich was as tall as your front step

Tonight's dinner "Tea" egg and chips takes me back to my childhood. Getting a chip buttie off my dad's plate because he got the first batch of chips. Saturday night special having been down the market for a fresh crab on Sunday and pop having had some jellied eels and me with me cockells My pop...

So I wish I could talk to a motorman, did that sheet metal with the bulge in cause a blind spot when loading and unloading Then just a question why not fit a smaller wheel ?, and keep the glass I wonder if a jump seat was ever tried as a regular seat would have gotten in the way ?. standing...

Thank you a wonderful link great read with some wonderful pictures and great information Now keeping with the thread getting on and off a tram must have been a little inconvenient first of all for the motor man he stood in front of the steps and must have had to move all the time.

What I should of spoke about in my last post I am sure no one would have been getting on a tram going down the Lickey Road on a bank holiday as the tram would have been packed liked sardines. So no stopping to pick up but that tram must have been on the brakes all the way down.

So a little off thread at first I worked with a retired fireman in the 70's and he told me that driving the truck with the water was the hardest to stop, the water would hold enough energy to push the engine through the traffic light under braking. I am now wondering how good the brakes were on...

Stop lights came about 1915, the trafficater early 20's Back before electric lights on cars most rear lights were oil

Was this a stop and tail or just a tail light ? This is me trying to figure out how the sausage is made

Thankfully we have come a long way towards accommodating people with disability's. But transportation and disability could well be its own thread.

So the last couple of posts use the term "Tram Driver" was this in fact their true job description ?. I have no idea, a term I have heard is Motor Man and Operater.

You are of course correct the point I was trying to make is all the variants of body's on the same platform. Some bus coach work has 2 sets of doors and other differences on the same chassis. When I went to college a instructor said a bus chassis had the axles above the frame rails ?, I have...

I see a headlight on a tram but no stop lights. So how did people know when a tram was going to slow down or stop ? Ha Ha. I suppose back then common sense was common not like today.

Well the whole American school bus debate is for another thread on another forum, I live it every day Now it was the American school bus that got me thinking about the correct protocol for cars and trams. Here we have to stop in both directions on a non divided road while the bus is at rest...

That's a keeper looks like it may be out of commission but just looking at it you can see it's been a work horse for many years. I really like the cab configuration, makes me think that this was indeed a purpose built break down rig, rather than some kind of conversion of a truck. I really love...

I do it shows the evolution of a chassis and all the ways it could be configured, after all for me that's what a bus is a truck chassis with windows and seats When looking at many of the bus pictures they show how many varying body styles were on the same chassis The auto industry has a long...

Love the tow truck, need a in use pic perhaps rescuing a bus

I think the "spalling' you speak of is paint wear, looking at the long platform support beams are solid at the ends, if they were aluminium I would expect them to be open, the same can be said for the short support for the lower platform which goes through both uprights, The ladder seems to...

Wow I hope we are looking at a bus that's had some what of a clean up after the fire There is not a lot left, there must be a lot of fibre glass used I can not think of what else could burn and take the bus to the chassis The trolley looks like a self build affair narrow to go between the...

Where in Rubery was the terminus ? For trams. The reason I ask that's a tall brick wall.