NoddKD
master brummie
There is a similar system in Saracen armoured cars. The pedal is called,wait for it........the gear change pedal,orGCP.
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Birmingham buses
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NoddKD
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
and on a bsa dandy moped
Eric Gibson
master brummie
Wilson pre-select gearboxes were fitted to most of the Daimler commercials and buses, likewise to the army scout cars.
Richard Dye
master brummie
Makes sense me!
Brummie a long time ago
master brummie
Richard Dye
master brummie
Hated those request stops!
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
half the time they did not stop when you put your hand out
Richard Dye
master brummie
Especially late in the evening!half the time they did not stop when you put your hand out
RobT
Acemeccanoman
Is it Lee bank Road, Edgbaston? Opposite No. 196 Bates Newsagency
Radiorails
master brummie
Let's hope this location is correct. Last time we had a Inner Circle 8 bus location to identify there was a very long thead covering a large part of the 8 route.
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
oooooLet's hope this location is correct. Last time we had a Inner Circle 8 bus location to identify there was a very long thead covering a large part of the 8 route.
RobT
Acemeccanoman
Think this is the same bus stop location, check out blocked up windowLet's hope this location is correct. Last time we had a Inner Circle 8 bus location to identify there was a very long thead covering a large part of the 8 route.
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Radiorails
master brummie
Thats the place RobT. Lee Bank Road.
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
sorted thank you RobT
for the reply. well done
Banjo
master brummie
I think that's the same chap just got off the bus who was just about to get on the bus on post 2,197.
Radiorails
master brummie
Well, Banjo, I think he was about to board the bus in post 2197. The bus was JOJ 701. The bus in post 2205 is a different bus but I agree he does appear to be the same person.
Lloyd
master brummie
No, it doesn't have a blown headlight. The law for buses used to allow for the nearside one to be dipped beam, and the offside one main beam (when both would be on). The only required one tail light as well.
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Birmingham City Transport received 15 of these RT-type Regents in 1947, with Park Royal 54-seat bodies. No 1634, seen when new, demonstrates the rather uneasy match of contemporary London and Birminghan ideas.”
(The classic buses by Booth, Gavin. Publication date 1976.)
Radiorails
master brummie
In my opinion these vehicles 1631 GOE 631 - 1645 GOE 645 were the ugly ducklings of the post WW2 BCT fleet. I think my views were shared by the Transport Committee as no further buses to that design were ordered.
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
The link now fails, but could this be a picture…
“one of 30 normal-control Conquests with 25 seats supplied to Birmingham Corporation. The latter were used as tram replacements and were soon rebuilt to forward-control. Author's Collection.
(British buses before 1945 by Aldridge, John. Publication date 1995.)
devonjim
master brummie
Was this the style of bus that was used in 1960's as mainly "standing only" for transport of workers. I was thinking of the 36 route between Stechford and Tyseley.
RobT
Acemeccanoman
Another photo of Guy Conquest, between 1933 and 1935 No. 60 was equipped to run on town gas.
Photo from Birmingham Corporation Transport 1904-1939 by Ian Allan
Eric Gibson
master brummie
Where was the gas stored on the bus? I recall the wartime ones with a trailer and cars with a gasbag on the roof.
Richard Dye
master brummie
In Japan the gas was stored behind the real wheels, at least on some buses. However it is difficult to tell particularly on something developmental.
RobT
Acemeccanoman
From Lloyd in 2010' on a thread called 'Coal gas Bus 1933
It is one of these that was used in conjunction with the Gas department's experiments, No 60 (OF 3969), the highly compressed gas being stored in cylinders under the rear of the bus at a considerable 3000 lb/psi. The experiment could not have held the promise it offered, whereby the city produced its own bus fuel, and 60 was converted back to petrol.
Coal Gas Bus, Birmingham 1933.
I recently came across this picture and would like to know more about the bus, if anyone can help. The picture is captioned: The Duke of York Being Shown a Gas-Driven Bus at Castle Bromwich. The accompanying text reads: On the previous day [20 February 1933] the Duke of York [later King...
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