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They Were Caught In Our Old Street Pics...

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Them women weren't so daft, the men would've kept the wind off them !

Imagine bouncing around on those back seats, solid tyres too.
 
Great a saying I had forgotten thanks Stephen I am going to Baggsie something this weekend. xx
 
Brings back memories of baggsying the back seat of the coach on school trips. (See now we've got a verb for it too!) It was the only way you could be with all your friends on the coach journey. Think the baggsied back seaters were generally the noisiest bunch. But hey, I never worried too much about being sophisticated in those days! Viv.
 
We used to 'bags' cars...and remember the plate numbers so no one else could 'bags' it. Funny, I can even remember one of the numbers now. Of course you need to have a 'bags' witness as proof of 'bags ownership'. 'Bags trades' were made....the first form of Bitcoin....er...Bagscoin. Now you make a zillion for this kind of stuff and nonesence.
 
I don't know what we bagsied but I remember kids saying it like claiming ownership usually of a seat. I thought the back seat was for snoggin. never sat there myself though, or the tough kids sat at the back on the bus to football practice and the smokers sat there upstairs on the bus even when it was forbidden.I remember singing stop the bus we want to wee cos the boys at the back cant swim swim swim. We got told off.
 
Haven't baggsied anything since I left school. I remember that it was generally 'honoured' by kids back then. If you had baggsied it then it was yours. Is that a baby on a women's lap sitting in the middle of the last but one seat ?
 
Looks like a well wrapped baby.
The man in the foreground has a pocket handkerchief in his breast pocket. I remember being made to put one in and it never looked right. Dad had an imitation one with 3 folds fixed to a piece of cardboard he stuck in his breast pocket. The chap seems to have a watch and chain too. I have my great grannies fob watch chain. But Nan's second husband went and flogged the watch that was promised to me. The swine!
 
wooo . Yes it is a baby without baby seat Phil, well spotted,

If they went fast over one of those bridges where your tummy felt weird (remember) ...
then all the back row must of launched into the air - what a sight for sore eyes.

I wonder how they all kept their hat's on ?
 
On the road Clifford Bridge Road, to the hospital there were 2 simultaneous bridges I used to urge grandad to put his foot down. Hr remarked that the babies would come early in the ambulance. They are not flattened!
Chin straps Stephen?
 
There are quite a few of these remarkable vehicles on the forum. The passengers in this pic don't look too happy, maybe they have just returned from a bumpy ride. Pneumatic tyres under the engine but solid tyres at the back. I don't think the boy in the front seat is the driver. The lady and gent in the road are probably the staff !
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The original pic is in this forum post https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=36551&p=441561#post441561
 
That's some convertible! Would the hood stretch right over the vehicle? Looks too short, so the front passengers might get wet. Viv.
 
I like looking at faces in these old pics and tried the 'auto-enhance' in the iPad and it appears to have done a reasonable job - just look at those faces - particularly the kids. The bloke two rows from the back looks seriously 'brassed off' !
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Great photo, every one in a hat and overcoat etc, apart from little girl in back , no one is smiling , you would think they were all going to be shot, rather than a day out??, perhaps they knew what a horrendous cold and bumpy journey was ahead of them!!!!!
 
Think they're a group of clairvoyants and are very upset at the future demise of the The Globe pub behind them. But seriously, I love the little lad in the front seat. He's obviously excited and just wants to get going but "this bloomin' photographer's taking his time about it"!

Viv.

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I notice in the original post (link under the first pic in #1152) Mikejee suggested the pub was the Gothic and I've seen it named in another post from Lyn click/here. Just for interest there is a brilliant pic posted by rosie showing some of her family in a charabanc click/here
 
paul stacey said:
Great photo, every one in a hat and overcoat etc, apart from little girl in back , no one is smiling , you would think they were all going to be shot, rather than a day out??, perhaps they knew what a horrendous cold and bumpy journey was ahead of them!!!!!
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You're not here to enjoy yourselves!
 
Ha. The blokes are brassed off cus they had to sit in the back after all the front seats were all baggiesied out early again.

I also have a theory that some blokes over 45 tend to loose their chuckle muscles.

The pics are brilliant - imagine one of these tapping your vehicle up the back bumper - it would be a right off.
I'm also thinking what a safety hazard - did they have chaps with red flags running ahead ?
 
No wonder there were bollards on so many street corners, negotiating bends must have been a nightmare. Viv.
 
Looking closely at the faces for a time you can just about detect a hint of a smile breaking on some faces. The Lloyd-George lookalike thinks he's located his chuckle muscles and is standing tall and proud to prove it! Viv.
 
I reckon the chap standing to the front is the driver, what you think ?
I was thinking thats a fag in his mouth - making him look like a Jack-the-lad but I'm not sure if its a mark on the pic now.
I just hope the brakes were good.
 
The advert on the tram says 'Bovril puts Beef into You' and maybe the folks caught in this picture needed some 'beef' in this traffic on Salford Bridge. I think I can see eight trams and a maze of wires above them. I suppose there was a system to ensure the tram pole current collectors followed the correct wire - it would be awkward if the tram went one way and the collector went another. Zebra crossings not yet in use so only metal studs mark a crossing point for that lady who has to choose the right moment to cross ....
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An inspector was stationed at Salford Bridge to ensure that the trams went into Birmingham in the correct order so that they would be lined up correctly on the single terminal track in Steelhouse Lane.

As for how the tram found the correct track, this is a description from Wikipedia:
In some tramway systems points (switches) could be activated by the motorman from inside the tram, while the tram was still moving. In a commonly used and simple arrangement, the points would be operated by the motorman "cutting off" (i.e. returning the handle to the off position) or keeping power on while the tram passed beneath a special contactor in the overhead wires. The contactor would sense whether the tram was drawing electricity from the overhead. If the motorman cut off power the points were to be set for straight ahead. If the motorman kept the power on, the contactor sensed power was being drawn and the points would be set for the branch line.
 
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