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I also terrorised my Neighbours including racing up and down Dewsbury Grove in my Knackered Jaguar E type. My first car was a Ford 100e Anglia that I sometimes had to get a push start from the paperboy, bless him. My friend Arthur Kearney had a similar escort to yours but treated it with great...

I was at Beeches road until 1960 and have to say they were the worst years of my life. I lived in the Grove that shared the right of way with Derrydown and have great memories of my 25 years living there especially my time at Dorrington road infants and juniors.

So very sorry to her, my sincerest condolences.

My Cousin who we visited in Manchester in the fifties had a similar Morris, unfortunately he never told me not to jump on the running board until it was too late, he wasn't too impressed when it fell off.

I'm sure I can remember an indoor market hall somewhere near the Bus garage, this would have been late fifties as my Mother used to take us there and buy some beer shampoo in the little barrel shaped bottles.

Only starts after records computerised as far as I'm aware unless the vehicle is still registered. Tried to find details of previous cars I've owned going back to the sixties but all you get is vehicle details could not be found.

Always liked the Devon General open topper 12 service when on holiday in Paignton back in the late fifties early sixties. Never the same when we moved to Torquay 40 years later when operated by Stagecoach.

Sorry no photos but just for info, I used to drive the Children from Yorkswood School back in 1970 when I worked for Colin Mann the owner of Classis Coaches of Coleshill, always found them to be well behaved unlike some other Schools.

Yes the little triangular bag with a few tatty spuds and loads of salt, oh happy days.

So very sorry to hear this awful news. Hopefully Alan won't be in pain,

Rylands always used A T Gittins for our major electrical work, making up new wiring looms always seemed a very complicated job. We also had our own Merlin calibration machine for checking and adjust the CAV fuel pumps off the Gardner engines. Did the MVT 1 to 3 at Handsworth then Aston Tech.

I also went to Handsworth Tech but spent a couple of years learning how to eat Cheese and onion cobs, playing darts and drinking beer at the local pub. Ended up having to go to night School instead at Aston tech which certainly taught me a lesson in the folly of not knuckling down.

Ryland Garage 1960 as a trainee mechanic as my Mother couldn't afford for me to be an Apprentice. Started in the stores three months before my 15th Birthday and paid out of petty cash, great boss who realised times were difficult for us.

Garage I worked at in a Ryland street had a Johnsons ? Fish merchants van in for accident repairs, think it was one of the Austin J series, when we started to strip out the double skinned rear floor we found it full of maggots. Much panic followed before we pushed the van to the steam cleaner...

Nice reading about the similar coaching experiences I remember just a few years before mine. I also obtained my PSV when 21whilst working as a mechanic for a coach company, Stocklands, and would often cover the overnight South Devon run, seem to remember the pay was half a crown an hour but...

The radio set pictured looks very similar to the one the speed check Policeman was wearing in 1964 when I got caught speeding on Short Heath Road, presume he was in contact with his colleague in the Austin Gipsey which I flew past.

I remember trying to buy a master cylinder for a 1962 Etype in the late sixties from PJ Evans as repair kits from Girling not available, had to drive around with only the front brakes working untill I could afford one.

Tokens were still being used here in Cornwall up to at least 2000, didn't realise what they were when I started driving down here as I'd never seen tokens before.

Not Buses but coach related. We used a thick jelly type floor cleaner when I worked for Stocklands, what you didn't do was leave it undiluted on your hands or the skin would come off, smelled nice though.

Kingstanding baths when I was at Beeches road School late fifties, best part was the hot Bovril you could buy from the drinks machine and the rickety old coach that took us there.