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1957 BMMO S15 4631

1957 BMMO S15 in The British Policeman, Documentary, 1959 IMDB

Class: Bus, Single-deck — Model origin: UK

1957 BMMO S15 4631

Pos: 00:09:27 [*][*] Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

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dsl SX

◊ 2015-03-08 21:49

 I like the way the plate (631 AHA = end 55 Smethwick) matches the route number, but at the rear
[Image: 209-27coach631amab.jpg]
it shows a different route number.

Same coach and position in Leicester bus station at 00-08 as the film opens, but only this glimpse
[Image: 209-27coach631ama00-08.jpg]

... which sets up another common cliche in these 1950s documentaries - introduce a bewildered and lost black gentleman
[Image: 2introcliche.jpg]
who needs directions in this strange country from a kind policeman.

Anyway back to the coach - Leicester was Midland Red territory
[Image: 209-27coach631amac.jpg]

so I guess we're talking BMMO?? :hello: @jfs

-- Last edit: 2015-05-08 00:42:29

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2015-03-08 22:10

 1957 BMMO S15 Fleet No. 4631

The registration number was allocated in 1955 but the buses, 601 - 650 AHA were not constructed until 1957. Not actually a coach, more of a bus with dual purpose seating and a higher axle ratio, although turned out in the company's coach livery of Black over Red. In the manner typical of the Red, which did everything differently, this is another of their home built buses. A second batch of 48 was constructed in 1962, but the entire class of 98 vehicles had disappeared by 1973.

-- Last edit: 2015-03-08 22:41:31

dsl SX

◊ 2015-03-08 22:22

 Plate is definitely 631 AHA - Smethwick, where BMMO built their creations - Link to "www.flickr.com" - but seems May 57 - Link to "www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk" - with S15 starting in Apr 57.

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2015-03-08 22:47
dsl wrote Plate is definitely 631 AHA - Smethwick, where BMMO built their creations - Link to "www.flickr.com" - but seems May 57 - Link to "www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk" - with S15 starting in Apr 57.


Not quite. The company's head office and official address was in Smethwick, but the engineering and body works was in Carlyle Rd Edgbaston Birmingham, which suburb, as well as being home to the Warwickshire County Cricket Club, was also the place of my entry into the world.

Two buses visible in the garage, a D7 and a C2. The Red had a simple code for its postwar own built vehicles, S for single deckers, or saloons as they were known, D for double deckers and C for coaches. By far the most innovative, and probably the most eccentric of the large bus companies, the Midland Red had 500 home built underfloor engined single deck buses on the road before Leyland or AEC had got beyond prototypes.

-- Last edit: 2015-03-09 08:30:47

dsl SX

◊ 2015-05-08 00:48

 All pictures upgraded from better quality copy. What's the miserable face single decker in the garage?

[Image: 209-27coach631amad.jpg]

johnfromstaffs EN

◊ 2015-05-08 09:33

 BMMO C1 or maybe C2.

Very art deco if you see the whole thing.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/48950471@N02/8289299516/
Link to "www.gracesguide.co.uk"

-- Last edit: 2015-05-08 09:41:45

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