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Birmingham buses
- Thread starter ragga
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brian johnson
proper brummie kid
Lloyd, I accept 'gear change pedal' but i called it a selector pedal ,not a selector lever. I drive LOG 302 a BCT Daimler at Aldridge transport museum which has the lever on the steering column , some other BCT standards had floor 'sticks'. to select pre select gears.
Lloyd
master brummie
Those were Guy Arabs Brian, using a very similar gearbox and a pedal to effect the change. Later versions of the box in Rear engined chassis were directly selected using air pressure, sometimes electrically operated.
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
the first pre-selector vehicle i ever drove was a bus at miller st depot park
HOW TO DRIVE A BUS WITH A PRE-SELECT GEARBOX
https://davemoore1.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/how-to-drive-a-bus-wit-a-pre-select-gearbox
paul stacey
master brummie
My mom was apart time clippy at the Harborne depot, and I am sure she had one of theae at our house in the 1950's!!
Gerry Cannell
master brummie
MidlanD Red used Setright machines. Easy to use, and not too heavy. When I was a conductor in 1958, based at Sutton Garage, the machine was issued on a daily basis. On a Saturday night in the rush hour running a 119 to Great Barr, standing load from the Dog Track at Perry Barr...the machine used to get red hot, but hardly ever let me down. Thanks for the memory.
Richard Dye
master brummie
I remember when they gave you a ticket out of a stack mounted on a board. I thought late 40's early 50's. We used to collect the tickets then these things came out, pretty cool devices but collecting stopped.
Radiorails
master brummie
paul stacey
master brummie
I remember them well!!
Radiorails
master brummie
For more information on tickets and the machines that issued them.
birminghamhistory.co.uk
Ticket Machine
I think London used the TIM right up to the end of conductors. Before the Setright Speed, Midland Red used a machine with buttons on the top for the different fares and the conductor then moved a lever across the front of the machine to print and issue the tickets. No idea what that was called...
birminghamhistory.co.uk
Lloyd
master brummie
Leslie George Millard was 43 years old in 1940 and lived with wife Florence Amelia (nee Perks), and daughter Edith at 23 Wellfield Road, Hall Green.
Bob Davis
Bob Davis
My son's father in ..law is a leading light in the bus and train ticket collectors world.
Bob
Gerry Cannell
master brummie
I notice the bus was an "ALBION", a manufacturer that was a big name back then, disappearing in the sixties I believe.
paul stacey
master brummie
I remember that name well Gerry, I seem to remember it in a sort of rising sun shape, red? on the radiator front, but after so long may be wrong!!
Gerry Cannell
master brummie
Spot on matey.
Gerry Cannell
master brummie
Trivia, I believe that ALBION were the first to produce the underfloor engine, and remember their advert for this innovative design. Thanks guys.
Radiorails
master brummie
I think that you will find the B&MMO (Midland Red) were the first have underfloor engined vehicles. During the early part of WW2 single deck bus BHA 1 was produced this lead to the S6 class of buses in 1946;
The Albion Nimbus, their u/floor bus was in 1955.
The Albion Nimbus, their u/floor bus was in 1955.
Gerry Cannell
master brummie
Well there you go, we learn something every day. Cheers!
paul stacey
master brummie
First bus trip I ever had aged about 5, was on a Midland Red, single decker to Dudley Zoo, would be about 1952!!
Radiorails
master brummie
The S6 bus referred in a previous post. The first on many buses made post WW2.