Engineering works executed by Braithwaite & Co. Ltd, West Bromwich, c1935 - Birmingham Corporation Tramways & Omnibus Department Perry Barr bus garage
A page from a substantial book illustrating the steel work and other engineering contracts carried out by the West Bromwich based Braithwaites. Founded in 1884 as Braithwaite & Kirk the company prospered mainly due to a healthy export business in the 'colonies' as well as in the home market and indeed in 1913 they opened an Indian branch as well as later acquiring additional works in Newport, Monmouthshire.
One of the company's specialities was large span buildings such as bus garages and this, I'm certain, shows the interior of Perry Barr bus garage opened by the municipal transport undertaking in 1932 at a time when the Department was rapidly expanding its motor bus fleet. I'm inclined to this being Perry Barr - and indeed it appears in a slightly different form in another company advert where it is credited as Perry Barr - as the most visible bus has that on the destination screens! Most of the buses seen here appear to be of ADC or AEC origin - and the one mentioned earlier looks to be one of the 1932 delivery of AEC Regent chassis registered OG 4**. It could be one of the Vulcan bodied batch. Other vehicles appear to be of the earlier, late 1920s deliveries of Associated Daimler, the short-lived joint marketing venture between Southall based AEC and Coventry based Daimler. Other items that can be just made out are the row of large enamel signs on the garage wall and they're most likely to be the lomg lived exhortations as to rules, regulations and instructions that I remember still being on the wall of Selly Oak garage in the 1970s!
Engineering works executed by Braithwaite & Co. Ltd, West Bromwich, c1935 - Birmingham Corporation Tramways & Omnibus Department Perry Barr bus garage
A page from a substantial book illustrating the steel work and other engineering contracts carried out by the West Bromwich based Braithwaites. Founded in 1884 as Braithwaite & Kirk the company prospered mainly due to a healthy export business in the 'colonies' as well as in the home market and indeed in 1913 they opened an Indian branch as well as later acquiring additional works in Newport, Monmouthshire.
One of the company's specialities was large span buildings such as bus garages and this, I'm certain, shows the interior of Perry Barr bus garage opened by the municipal transport undertaking in 1932 at a time when the Department was rapidly expanding its motor bus fleet. I'm inclined to this being Perry Barr - and indeed it appears in a slightly different form in another company advert where it is credited as Perry Barr - as the most visible bus has that on the destination screens! Most of the buses seen here appear to be of ADC or AEC origin - and the one mentioned earlier looks to be one of the 1932 delivery of AEC Regent chassis registered OG 4**. It could be one of the Vulcan bodied batch. Other vehicles appear to be of the earlier, late 1920s deliveries of Associated Daimler, the short-lived joint marketing venture between Southall based AEC and Coventry based Daimler. Other items that can be just made out are the row of large enamel signs on the garage wall and they're most likely to be the lomg lived exhortations as to rules, regulations and instructions that I remember still being on the wall of Selly Oak garage in the 1970s!