WMPTE 3127, Adderley Street, Birmingham, 1977

            Redundant West Midlands buses on Adderley Street bus dump, Birmingham in 1977. Nearest the camera is 3127 (MOF127), an ex Birmingham City Transport, 1953 Crossley bodied Daimler CVG6 that had been withdrawn from use in February 1976. 

The single decker to the right is an unidentified ex Birmingham MCW bodied ACE Swift. However, the most significant vehicle in this scene peeps out behind the two buses on the left of picture. This was 1L (1UDH), the unique Daimler Fleetline that had been new to Walsall CT in 1962. An Earls Court,  Commercial Show exhibit in 1962, the bus was the shortest Daimler Fleetline ever built at just over 26ft long, and carried a taylor-made Northern Counties body with a centre entrance/exit doorway. It also featured curved glass front windows in both the upper and lower saloons. Withdrawn in 1974 and retained for a few short years, the bus was eventual disposed of to scrap, the PTE fully aware of the vehicle's importance. 

Taken on a visit to Birmingham in the summer of 1977. 

I posted this image on flickr years ago, but it is another that has just dissappeared without trace. I have noticed in reccent times that quite a number of my old pictures have gone from my flickr photostream. Anyone else noticed similar?

Taken on: January 1, 1977

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