Midland Red Single-Deckers

Throughout their existence from 1904 until 1981, the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Company were 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. Much of their area was distinctly rural but in Birmingham and the Black Country, Worcester and Hereford, Stafford and Leicester intensive urban operation was much more the norm. 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 fascinating buses.