Tag: Walsall Corporation

  • Walsall Corporation – Sunbeam F4A – XDH 72 – 872

    Copyright Tony Martin Walsall Corporation 1956 Sunbeam F4A Willowbrook H36/34R Walsall Sunbeam F4A, Willowbrook bodied trolleybus, 872  XDH 72. Seen leaving Bichills Depot on the evening of 3rd October 1970, having dropped off the guests it carried and is now making the last run ‘under the wires’ on a public road by a Walsall trolleybus.…

  • Walsall Corporation – Sunbeam F4 – NDH 958 – 341

    Copyright Tony Martin Walsall Corporation 1951 Sunbeam F4 Brush H30/26R Former Walsall Corporation 341, by August 1970 owned by the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive, leaves Walsall Bus Station for Blakenhall. It is a Sunbeam F4 with much rebuilt Brush body and should be showing route 15. In the background is former Birmingham City 2593…

  • Walsall Corporation – Sunbeam F4 – ADX 191 – 353

    Copyright Tony Martin Walsall Corporation 1950 Sunbeam F4 Park Royal H30/26R On a snowy day in February 1967 Walsall Corporation trolleybus 353 is on a short working to Leamore. The vehicle was an ex-Ipswich Corporation Sunbeam F4 with Park Royal body which was acquired with seven others due to the closer of the Ipswich Trolleybus…

  • WMPTE ex-Walsall Corporation – Dennis Loline – 885 LDH – 885

    WMPTE/ex-Walsall Corporation1960Dennis Loline II YF10Willowbrook H44/30F On 1st October 1969 the Corporation bus fleets of Birmingham, West Bromwich, Walsall and Wolverhampton were absorbed into the newly formed West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive.Due largely to the famously eclectic tastes of its innovative and renowned former General Manager, Mr. R. Edgley Cox, members of the Walsall fleet…