Throughout their existence from 1904 until 1981, the Birmingham
& Midland Motor Omnibus Co. was an idiosyncratic operator whose
operational area covered an area from the Welsh Marches and
Shropshire in the west to Northamptonshire and Rutland in the east
and from Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire in the south to
Staffordshire and Derbyshire in the north. Immediately after the
First World War, Midland Red had used single-decker buses on
Tilling-Stevens petrol-electric chassis but in 1922 these were
replaced by the first SOS buses, designed by Chief Engineer Wyndham
Shire and manufactured at Midland Red's Carlyle Road Works. These
innovative and forward-thinking buses would out-compete many
Edwardian tram systems in the 1920s, especially in the Black
Country. After the Second World War, Midland Red introduced the S
class, which would play a key role in revolutionising the company's
urban and rural bus services. The last buses to be produced for
Midland Red at Carlyle Road would come in the early 1960s. With a
plethora of rare images, David Harvey examines the history of each
type of single-decker and offers a fascinating insight into the
history of these captivating, iconic buses.
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