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Can see The Duke of York on the left of the picture. Too dark to make out the particular vehicle.

Thanks again Dave, - another superb photo from you !!

The Duke of York, Harborne - clearly a civilised outpost established to teach "southerners" how to "talk proper", the value of brass (money) and everything to do with whippets and ferrets....



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daveevans2010 wrote: ↑

21:16 Monday 21st December 2020

Can see The Duke of York on the left of the picture. Too dark to make out the particular vehicle.DOY.jpg

The registration plate seems to show O 99*4 which might be 9914, 9924 or 9934 all of which are in a batch of Tilling-Stevens TTA2 petrol-electric chassis with Tilling O18/16R bodywork delivered new to Midland Red Tennant Street garage, Birmingham in 1913 and transferred to Birmingham Corporation Transport in October 1914. It is from the same batch of vehicles as O 9918 which featured in this section earlier in the year.

I note that the shop in the photograph has two adverts for Player's 'Navy Cut' cigarettes, which were untipped. I remember these well as my father smoked in excess of 60 per day before his premature death aged 51 in 1963. I hadn't realised that this brand went back 50 years or more with very little change in the pack design - you learn something new every day even at my age! As an aside, I remember the living room ceiling turning into a dark orangey yellow quite soon after repainting white, which also happened on the upstairs of Midland Red bus ceilings in the 1950's and 1960's as smoking was allowed upstairs back then - white turned to nicotine yellow/brown - just think what it was doing to smoker's and passenger's lungs.