Tag: Midland Red
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Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company Limited
The pictures below were taken in 1969/70, and, unless otherwise stated, are set against the somewhat brutalist backcloth of the Birmingham Bull Ring and its environs.The detailed information about the vehicles has been gleaned from the comprehensive Midland Red website:- http://midlandred.net/index.php Roger Cox03/2017 C2, Duple C26C, upseated to C30C in 1954, KHA 353, no. 3353…
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Midland Red – SOS SLR – CHA 976 – 1994
Copyright Roger Cox Midland Red (Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co) 1937 SOS SLR English Electric C30C Following on from Paul Haywoods posting of a Midland Red Regent II I thought you may be interested in a picture of one of the types of vehicle produced by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company itself…
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Midland Red – SOS SON – FHA 472 – 472 – 2317
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Midland Red (Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Co) 1939 SOS SON Brush B38F This uncredited wartime view of Midland Red FHA 472 (472 later 2317) shows it with masked headlamps and reflective mudguards. It was one of a large batch of…
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Midland Red – SOS FEDD – FHA 236 – 236 – 2254
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Midland Red (Birmingham & Midland Omnibus Co) 1939 SOS FEDD Brush H30/26F Midland Red FHA 236 (2254, formerly 236) was one of their unique pre-war, front-entrance, SOS FEDD double-deckers. They were built in large numbers between 1933 until 1939 with bodies…
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Midland Red – SOS SON – GHA 335 – 2416
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Midland Red (Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Co) 1940 SOS SON Brush B38F Another image by an unknown photographer. It shows Midland Red 2416 (GHA 335), a SOS SON of 1940. Apparently seen in its final days – acting as a…
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Midland Red – Daimler Fleetline – UHA 225H – 6225
Midland Red (Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Co)1969Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXBAlexander H45/30D Midland Red 6225, UHA 225H, is a Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXB with Alexander H45/30D body, and was new in 1969. It has been restored into West Midlands livery and I include a picture of it’s Gardner engine. Both of the shots were taken last weekend…
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Midland Red – BMMO S15 – 5056 HA – 5056
Midland Red (Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Co)1962BMMO S15BMMO DP40F This was one of the second batch of S15s. Broadly similar to the S14 bus, these were designed as dual-purpose vehicles and featured bucket-seats and double rear wheels as well as, on this second batch, some chrome trim. Circa 1969 the batch was relegated to…
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Midland Red – BMMO D10 – 943 KHA – 4943
Midland Red (Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Co)1960BMMO D10BMMO H78F This fascinating vehicle was the first of two prototype underfloor-engined double deckers built by Midland Red in 1960/61. AEC had shown such a layout was possible, with its Crossley-bodied Regent IV underfloor-engined decker prototype of 1950, which conformed to minimum gangway headroom requirements, while remaining…
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Midland Red – BMMO D9 – EHA 415D – 5415
Midland Red (Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Co)1966BMMO D9BMMO/Willowbrook H40/32RD EHA 415D has the unmistakable outline of a Midland Red D9. She has the operator’s own H72RD body, built in collaboration with Willowbrook. Does this mean one designed it and the other built it, or one built the frames and the other added the panels?…
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Midland Red – BMMO C1 – KHA 301 – 3301
Copyright Nigel Edwards Midland Red (Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co)1948BMMO C1Duple B40F This shot was taken in June 2010 at the BaMMOT Museum at Wythall. The beautifully restored example of 45 originally built represents the first post-war coaches introduced by BMMO at their Carlyle works with bodywork by Duple. Based on the service bus…