Midland Red 1841, Station Street, Birmingham, 1956
Definitely a snatched shot, but a worthy one. Midland Red SOS FEDD 1841 captured to film on driver tuition duties in November 1956. Three inspectors are sat in the bus, likely a nervous driver at the wheel?
The MCCW bodied front-entrance bus had been new to the Midland Red in 1936. Originally powered with petrol engines, the FEDDS were converted to diesel engines between 1942 and 1947, using either the AEC 7.7-litre engine or BMMO K-type 8-litre engine. 8141 ended up with a K-type engine in circa 1945.
The bus was withdrawn from use in 1956, but reinstated in the same year as a driver training bus running out of Bearwood Garage. It was finally withdrawn in 1958 and disposed of. Today, not a single example of FEDD survives, although an engineless ex Trent example was saved for a short time in the 1970s, but later scrapped.
Bus history information from the excellent midlandred.net
Scanned from the original negative.
Midland Red 1841, Station Street, Birmingham, 1956
Definitely a snatched shot, but a worthy one. Midland Red SOS FEDD 1841 captured to film on driver tuition duties in November 1956. Three inspectors are sat in the bus, likely a nervous driver at the wheel?
The MCCW bodied front-entrance bus had been new to the Midland Red in 1936. Originally powered with petrol engines, the FEDDS were converted to diesel engines between 1942 and 1947, using either the AEC 7.7-litre engine or BMMO K-type 8-litre engine. 8141 ended up with a K-type engine in circa 1945.
The bus was withdrawn from use in 1956, but reinstated in the same year as a driver training bus running out of Bearwood Garage. It was finally withdrawn in 1958 and disposed of. Today, not a single example of FEDD survives, although an engineless ex Trent example was saved for a short time in the 1970s, but later scrapped.
Bus history information from the excellent midlandred.net
Scanned from the original negative.