TWM Wythall Museum article

Subforum for non-Midland Red operators that do not have their own subforums.
Post Reply
WR1st
Posts: 56
Joined: 17:04 Monday 4th July 2016

TWM Wythall Museum article

Post by WR1st » 10:37 Saturday 11th February 2023

TWM Wythall Museum article from this weeks Redditch Standard
Attachments
018.jpg

TimBrown
Posts: 1280
Joined: 05:59 Monday 4th July 2016
Location: Worcester

Re: TWM Wythall Museum article

Post by TimBrown » 13:22 Saturday 11th February 2023

Thanks for posting the article about The Transport Museum, Wythall with a resume of the 2023 programme. It is good to see positive marketing, but I am just a bit concerned that there is no mention of the large collection of BMMO/Midland Red historic vehicles.

Since a certain well respected Trustee resigned, the emphasis seems to be on West Midlands and Birmingham City Transport buses nowadays. Please don't get me wrong, I am a firm fan of the Birmingham standard Guys, Daimlers and Crossleys, but it seems to have been forgotten that Midland Red had the biggest fleet outside London throughout the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s with services covering a vast area of the Midlands. It was also a highly innovative major Birmingham based manufacturer of buses and coaches to their own designs for over 50 years with Carlye Works own-built engines, something which neither BCT or TWM concerns ever achieved.

LloydP
Posts: 3
Joined: 02:12 Thursday 2nd November 2017

Re: TWM Wythall Museum article

Post by LloydP » 17:05 Saturday 11th February 2023

The Birmingham trams finished in 1953, not 1948. Sack the press release writer!!

Post Reply

Return to “Miscellaneous Operators”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 14 guests