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The anti-rattle device was a brass cylinder that was screwed to the door jamb, with a small cylinder holding a spring-loaded brass roller. This roller ran along a brass plate fitted underneath the door window (which had the 'key' symbol of the Birmingham Municipal Bank etched into the glass!)...

The report doesn't give a time beyond "last night", and we must remember it was blackout conditions at the time.

Just around the west midlands area, including the branch line to Harborne. Routes where passenger services had long finished. Pictured: the sane train at Harborne. This might be the 'other' engine at the tail of the train, as they would change direction a few times. Could you imagine spotters...

I used to do this in a VERY unofficial capacity on the no 9 between my stop on Hagley Road and Five Ways, on my way to school at about half eight in the morning when it was busy. I'd offer to the conductor to 'mind the platform' while he went upstairs to collect the fares. Some didn't allow it...

The same train later, in Halesowen station. The small engine was necessary because of a severe weight restriction on the Dowery Dell viaduct between Rubery and Halesowen, which was a 234 yards (214 m), nine span lattice steel, single-track railway viaduct that carried the railway. A 10 mph...

A bit later I think. Enlarged & tidied up a bit, the trolleybus seems to have a dark roof & rear roof dome, part of the blackout precautions. Could it be 1940?

I can only find one Nimrod Worley - born 22 Dec 1876 to William Worley (widow by 1891); Lived 2 house 8 Court Windsor St Duddeston 1891 as a 15 y.o. Gun Action Filer; Married Gertrude Lane, 2th quarter 1897, Lived 4 house 10 court Arthur Street Small Heath in 1911; Lived 9 Lorne Terrace, back of...

This was bus 814 (BOP 814) which had been parked in Studley Street at the rear of Highgate Road depot when it was bombed. The corporation were able to acquire some bus bodies intended for Manchester, whose chassis had been destroyed in the Coventry blitz, and 814 gained one of those. Manchester...

The attitude of some passengers is no better today (not really a surprise!) and was the main reason I was glad to get out of the job when I did. As for 'dud' money, any shortages were taken out of wages.

Certainly as far as driving goes - but all the lighting switches etc would have been in different places.

The immaculately restored one at Transport Museum Wythall, no 486 (OV4486) was one of these.

Is it a special event depicting what happens during a train drivers' strike?

Pits are not dangerous. The people who walk past and into them are (I know from personal experience, a couple of times!)

It was "caur" in Scotland!

Steam trams were required to "consume their own smoke & steam" whilst traversing the streets. Smoke was almost eliminated by burning coke (a 'smokeless' fuel), and the device on the locomotive roof is a condenser to turn the used steam back to water. Incidentally, revisiting the original photo...

Thank you. The initial reason for my research was the crash of an RAF plane in Digbeth, on the former Buckingham's coachbuilders next door to Digbeth bus garage & Coach station (see post 13 on this topic), and was about 15 years ago. In part of this, I studied the family trees of the airmen lost.

Very interesting - but not Billesley Common?

Albion used the 'sunrise' as an advertising slogan through most of their time. Eventually they were swallowed by the Leyland conglomerate, their last products being badge-engineered Leyland products for Scottish customers.

As the site was built over long ago, a very much doubt it.

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