"Latest type of omnibus" : in : City of Birmingham Official Handbook 1939
A page from the city's annual "Official Handbook" for 1939 in the Transport section. Birmingham City Transport was one of the various municipal trading departments that at the time also included the city's gas and electricity departments, both amongst the UK's largest undertakings. Employing over 8,000 people the Department had, on 31 March 1938, 701 tramcars, 863 motorbuses and 78 trolleybuses housed in nine tram depots and eleven bus garages along with central tram works at Kyotts Lake Road and buses at Tyburn Road ; the city was aiming to rapidly phase out trams and replace them primarily with motor buses as this section shows.
Seen here is a photo of the 'latest' type of motor omnibus; CVP 153, 1053 in the fleet, being a 1937 delivery of Daimler COG5 chassis with a Metropolitan-Cammell-Weymann body, one of numerous similar vehicles from the late 1930s that were in many ways the city's 'standard' bus. It is seen billed as being on the 1/1A route to Moseley that was often the scene for official photography as well as for 'new' buses, rumour having it that it was the route the Department's General Manager's house was situated on.
"Latest type of omnibus" : in : City of Birmingham Official Handbook 1939
A page from the city's annual "Official Handbook" for 1939 in the Transport section. Birmingham City Transport was one of the various municipal trading departments that at the time also included the city's gas and electricity departments, both amongst the UK's largest undertakings. Employing over 8,000 people the Department had, on 31 March 1938, 701 tramcars, 863 motorbuses and 78 trolleybuses housed in nine tram depots and eleven bus garages along with central tram works at Kyotts Lake Road and buses at Tyburn Road ; the city was aiming to rapidly phase out trams and replace them primarily with motor buses as this section shows.
Seen here is a photo of the 'latest' type of motor omnibus; CVP 153, 1053 in the fleet, being a 1937 delivery of Daimler COG5 chassis with a Metropolitan-Cammell-Weymann body, one of numerous similar vehicles from the late 1930s that were in many ways the city's 'standard' bus. It is seen billed as being on the 1/1A route to Moseley that was often the scene for official photography as well as for 'new' buses, rumour having it that it was the route the Department's General Manager's house was situated on.