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Thanks. Currently use Yahoo, with gmail as a backup. Adblock plus deals with most of the adverts unless I restart then it takes a day or two to catch up. (yes the computer is on 24/7, often doing things in the background).

Those trolleybuses ran from Coventry Road depot, which ran trams as well. The building is still there, at the juction with Arthur Street.

Thanks for the advice, Radiorails. Which e-mail platforms would you recommend that are more trouble free?

The bus is a Leyland Trolleybus, and the only route they worked was Coventry Road. I'm fairly sure that's what the road sign would say. Here's a colour photo of one of these impressive six-wheel 'silent servants'.

Sorry, not going to pay to avoid ads on the Sun site.

The 12" round emblem is known by many as the 'shirtbutton' emblem.

Aren't they the engines without gears, you run it backwardsfor reverse?

I have one almost exactly the same, but missing some of the finnials and the Eagle on top (I was told it was thrown away during the war!). The nechanism is worn out now and broken, I did take it to a mender a long time ago but he said the bearings (holes in the plates where the gear axles spin)...

A modern replica.

Heath Street is a clue.

Interesting railway architecture there! I wouldn't fancy parking near the trees or retaining wall, might come back to a flat car! Perhaps that's going to be 'sorted' in the ongoing work. The bulging wall needs some care & attention too, before gravity takes over.

There are always some qho are "Economic with the truth",

Oops! Never thought of that!

Some enumerators were quite poor at spelling (and writing!) so "gagu" would do for "Gauger". Who's going to see it, anyway? (Lol!)

The industry does "get in your blood"! When I was on the 'Red', I met many drivers who went on the buses "until a better job came along" and stayed for over 20 years! My interest is unusual in that it is in vehicles that I don't remember running because they had (almost) all gone by the time I...

Wasn't this the one where each floor sloped down to ground level? Also the one where another, to the same design, collapsed in Wolverhampton which condemned this one very soon after?

I doubt very much their parents' ability to afford uniforms - some of their clothes are hardly of the best quality, and probably hand-me-downs too. Such hardships can be the driving force to make some kids into prosperous adults.

The article accompanying this photo (also notification of the Jimmy Hanley - Dinah Sheridan divorce!)

Buses have always been my interest, and like many boys who want to be train drivers, I always wanted to be a bus driver. After an electrical apprenticeship at the Metro Cammell (where I was out on the trains rather than buses division - Hmmph!), I got the bus driving licence and worked for a...

Generally seems to mean something is irrevocably broken, or a person is dead. A few choices here: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/gone-for-a-burton.html