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Where is this 43

One of the dual door jumbo,s, used on the 18s mostly when I worked at Yardley Wood, and down to first gear up Parsons Hill with a load on, hated doing the number 4 run, was it 15 mins round trip to Cotteridge and back and 11 trips, or was it 11 mins, run and 15 trips, sure it was one or the other, know it was boring way to spend an afternoon.
 
Having once lived at Kings Norton, on The Green itself, I know Cotteridge very well and remember that stop just before the fire station. As for the other terminus, well, my ex-wife lives about 300 yards away, an as I visit occasionally (remaining friends through a divorce is the best way to do it!) I know the other end as well. The route started as one of the first one-man operated routes in the city (if you forget for a moment the Guy single deckers that replaced the Bolton Road trams, and the small Leyland and Daimler single deckers of the late 20s) with those single deck Daimler Fleetlines that looked like cut-off double deckers. The route was so popular that double deckers soon came into use.
 
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