Wythall Transport Museum

[seriesonewelder]

Ventured into @Robotstar5 territory to visit the bus museum taking my 91 year old Auntie.
They run short trips on the buses and as Walsall is our home town we were fortunate to ride on this one:

other buses





Aurrigo Auto Shuttle bus trialled in 2020

Aurrigo Auto Shuttle – Transport for Tomorrow

www.wythall.org.uk

 

[seriesonewelder]

There is also a collection of milk floats or perhaps I should say electric delivery vehicles.

 

[seriesonewelder]

The museum holds special events.

 

[Bullet2012]

nice to see one advertising the source of the insipid yellow lager.

 

[premmington]

@seriesonewelder

That is "a thing of beauty"

 

[frank horton]

my fav uncle used to drive a 3 wheel horse (Scamall) around London .
He always stopped at our house for lunch if he was in the area.....

 

[Seadog]

nice to see one advertising the source of the insipid yellow lager.
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This?

 

[droopsnoot]

The museum holds special events.

I think they do a monthly "cars and coffee"-style Sunday morning meeting. I took my car down there last year for a photo shoot for a classic car magazine, but didn't get much of a chance to look around the museum. There was plenty of waiting around but I'm not really interested in buses any more. It seemed as if they had a lot of stuff to look at, for those who are.

 

[ajlelectronics]

I took my car down there last year for a photo shoot for a classic car magazine

You too? I got promised all the photos etc, etc and got zilch although that wasn't my motivation.

 

[droopsnoot]

You too? I got promised all the photos etc, etc and got zilch although that wasn't my motivation.

I think the key is to chase them up - I got a download link that would work for a certain amount of time, same as I did for a previous magazine thing, but only after asking for it. But they did pay some fuel expenses for this one, which was nice. I didn't really do it for either of those things, mainly to help the club out as a lot of the usual cars that are sent for this kind of thing aren't local to Wythall, but it's nice to have some decent photos.

 

[RWD3M]

@seriesonewelder

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That is "a thing of beauty"

That's a Scarab is it not?

Hitchman's Dairies (later to become Unigate then United Dairies) on Shernhall Street in Walthamstow had them in probably the late 60's.

 

[seriesonewelder]

That's a Scarab is it not?

Hitchman's Dairies (later to become Unigate then United Dairies) on Shernhall Street in Walthamstow had them in probably the late 60's.

its similar

United Dairies Wales and Edwards Milk Truck 8505 PF

1963

www.wythall.org.uk

 

[premmington]

That's a Scarab is it not?

Hitchman's Dairies (later to become Unigate then United Dairies) on Shernhall Street in Walthamstow had them in probably the late 60's.

@RWD3M - "Scammell Scarab" - yeah it is - well at least I think it is...

I had a die cast model of one - my Dad bought me as child...

 

[Master-of-none]

... as Walsall is our home town

Much nearer, there is Aldridge Transport Museum (AKA Aston Manor Road Transport Museum). At first glance it seems quite similar, also featuring buses, commercial vehicles and cars.

 

[Cobbler]

@RWD3M - "Scammell Scarab" - yeah it is - well at least I think it is...

I had a die cast model of one - my Dad bought me as child...

Where I worked as a teenager, just up the road a coal merchant used one for deliveries. One day, as he ws coming past a bag rolled off the side & landed on a parked car. A cwt bag of coal didn’t do it much good! We also had deliveries from the railway on them, from what I recall, they were very menoverable.

 

[seriesonewelder]

Much nearer, there is Aldridge Transport Museum (AKA Aston Manor Road Transport Museum). At first glance it seems quite similar, also featuring buses, commercial vehicles and cars.

Been there also and when it was in Aston.

 

[Robotstar5]

A few more Scammells from a few shows.

 

[premmington]

A few more Scammells from a few shows.

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Something about a mini artic - I have always thought was "cool"

 

[Cobbler]

Something about a mini artic - I have always thought was "cool"

Back in the ‘60s there was a cake shop near us that the bakery used to deliver to with an articulated Morris 1000 pick-up. Never seen another one.

 

[Mick Annick]

A few more Scammells from a few shows.

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What’s the livery on the yellow one? Rings a few bells but not loudly enough.