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Birmingham City: Kits For The 2023/24 Season

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There is only one team in Birmingham worth supporting with true passion and Birmingham City is it.  I have been supporting them since 1978 when Jim Smith was the manager.  He is my favourite manager to date.   I am a blue nose ’til I die.

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My initial reaction to seeing the new home shirt was it looks like a normal plain t-shirt but it’s OK and it will be one of those looks that will grow on me. There are different shades of Royal Blue and I would have preferred it to have been a more traditional darker shade.  The bands around the neck and arms would have been better white and the shorts would have been better white but it is not a bad kit.  It is one of them that will look better in person and worn.

I have always liked the Nike swoosh logo so I was pleased when we first had them as our kit supplier. However, like feeling the same when we had Adidas before them, it was disappointing that they make very generic tops, where as in the past we have had varied styles from different suppliers.

I don’t know much about the new kit sponsor Undefeated and as much as the front logo looks like a garden gate, it makes a nice change from gambling sponsors and it is nice that the kit is the same throughout the men and women’s teams and kids can wear the same as the adults are.

Although tradition plays a big part in it for the fans, in the end, it isn’t all necessarily about what colour a football kit is, the sponsors and advertising on it or what players name is on the back, what really matters is the club badge on the front. That represents all of us who follow this fantastic team.  That is where the true passion lies.   

Home Kit: 2023 – 2024 Season 

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Birmingham City’s new home kit for the 2023 – 2024 season.

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Birmingham City’s new home kit top for the 2023 – 2024 season.

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Birmingham City’s new home kit shorts for the 2023 – 2024 season.

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Birmingham City’s new home kit socks for the 2023 – 2024 season.

Away Kit: 2023 – 2024 Season 

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Birmingham City’s new away kit for the 2023 – 2024 season.

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Birmingham City’s new away kit top for the 2023 – 2024 season.

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Birmingham City’s new away kit shorts for the 2023 – 2024 season.

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Birmingham City’s new away kit socks for the 2023 – 2024 season.

Third Kit: 2023 – 2024 Season 

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Birmingham City’s new third kit for the 2023 – 2024 season.

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Birmingham City’s new third kit top for the 2023 – 2024 season.

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Birmingham City’s new third kit shorts for the 2023 – 2024 season.

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Birmingham City’s new third kit socks for the 2023 – 2024 season.

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Birmingham City: Fixtures, Results And Goal Scorers For The 2023/24 Season.

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Birmingham City: Keep Right On To The End Of The Road.

Birmingham City: My First Home Game Of The 2023/24 Season.

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The Birmingham Buddhist Vihara Photos – Page 1

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Here are photos I took on my first visit to the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara on 17/09/22.  

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An older sign at the front of the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
The entrance to the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
The left lion at the entrance © Frank Parker
The right lion at the entrance © Frank Parker
The Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Outside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Outside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Rewata Dhamma Hall outside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Buddha statue outside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Buddha statue outside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Writing above the front door of the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Wood carving on the front door at the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Wood carving on the front door at the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Wood carving inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Wood carving inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Wood carving inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Wood carved cabinet and ornaments inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Ornaments inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Wood carved cabinet and ornaments inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker

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Here are more photos I took on my first visit to the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara on 17/09/22.  

Ornaments inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Ornaments inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Baddamta Rewata Dhamma and wood carved chair inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Baddamta Rewata Dhamma inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Wood-carved chair inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Wood-carved chair inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Wood-carved chairs inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Wood-carved settee and gong inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
A gong inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
A gong inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
A wooden cabinet and ornaments inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
A wooden cabinet and ornaments inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
A wooden cabinet, ornaments and books inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
A trophy inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
A cabinet and ornaments inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
A cabinet and ornaments inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker

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Here are more photos I took on my first visit to the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara on 17/09/22.  

Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker
Inside the Birmingham Buddhist Vihara © Frank Parker

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The Museum Collection Centre: Photos – Page 10

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Here are more photos I took on my first visit to the Museum Collection Centre on 17/09/22. 

A lawnmower at the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
Unknown at the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
An helicopter engine at the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This is the Leonides engine made by Alvis Car and Engineering Company Limited of Coventry.  It was fitted to the Bristol 171 Sycamore, the first post-war British commercial helicopter.  It was also used by the military until production ended in 1959.

Read about the Alvis Leonides here.

Read about Alvis Car and Engineering Company Limited here.

Read about the Bristol 171 Sycamore here.

A roadside water box at the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Difficulties in finding enough water in the 1920’s to refill the boilers in Steam Vehicles led to many authorities providing standpipes which needed a key for access.  This one came from Birkenhead.

A Leyland PD2 double decker bus outside the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A Leyland PD2 double decker bus outside the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A Leyland PD2 double decker bus outside the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
The side of a Leyland PD2 double decker bus outside the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This PD2 is the only survivor of a batch of 50 Leyland Titan Buses with bodies by the London coachbuilder Park Royal.  They were supplied to Birmingham City Transport between 1949 and 1952 and consistently associated with the Roseberry Street garage.  The batch was unusual in having a number of features not generally associated with BCT design including a different staircase layout and window style.

The bus was one of the few that ended their working lives at the Quinton garage where it was withdrawn from service in 1969 and rescued from the scrap yard by Bob Shaw.  The restoration was prolonged but, after a change of ownership to Nigel Stribley, mechanical work started in earnest, first at the Aldridge Transport Museum (where it is now) then elsewhere when the body restoration was also carried out.  It took 47 years before it finally took to the road again.  It was placed back at the Museum in 2017 where work is continuing, particularly on the interior.

Although not part of the Museum Collection Centre, this bus was there on the day I visited and its photos and information is worth sharing.  

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Here are more photos I took on my first visit to the Museum Collection Centre on 17/09/22. 

A typesetting machine in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Single letters made from molten metal and assembled in a Frame were a feature of printing in 1965 when this Monotype Casting Machine was produced. It was used in West Bromwich.

Read about the Monotype Casting Machine here.

Read about Typesetting here.

A typographic composing machine in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This machine is from 1925 and was used to compose print for newspapers, magazines and books it can produce Roman and Italic lettering as well as borders and ornamental backgrounds. It can also produce different typefaces and other alphabets.

Read about the Leyland Titan here.

Read about Typesetting here.

Unknown in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This was another favourite of mine visiting museums back in the day.  This was in the Birmingham Museum and Art gallery.

A cash register in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This cash register was made by the National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio. This one was used in a corn and seed merchant’s shop in Hitchin until 1971.

Read about the National Cash Register here.

A cash register in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This cash register was made by the National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio.

Read about the National Cash Register here.

Chinese Chair And Cushion

This was a gift from the Friends of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. It is beautifully carved and made of an antique Chinese wood called Huanghuali (also known by its Binomial name Dalbergia odorifera).

Read about Huanghuali here.

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A chinese chair and cushion in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A memorial in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A memorial in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A memorial in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A Kodak camera and stand in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This is a Kodak studio camera mounted on a Semi Centenial No. 2 Stand.  Kodak was a subsidry of the U.S. based Eastman Kodak Company and opened its first office in 1885.

Read about Kodak here.

A magic lantern in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Developed in the 1600’s, the magic lantern is an early type of image projector.  It uses a concave mirror in front of a light source to gather light and   project it through a slide.  The light rays cross an aperture and hit a lens., which in turn throws the enlarged slide image onto a screen.

Read about the magic lantern here.

A sleigh in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A rocking horse in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A rocking horse in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A doll's house in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A doll's pram in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This doll’s pram was made by James Lloyd and Company, Hurst Street, Birmingham in the early 1900’s.

A wooden toy pram in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A victorian pram in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This is classed as a Victorian Double Pram.  It is made from wood and leather. 

Pram

A pram the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A push chair in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

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Aston Hall – Official website.

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Museum Of The Jewellery Quarter – Official website.

Sarehole Mill – Official website.

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Aldridge Transport Museum – Official website.  The museum is home of Aston Manor Road Transport Museum (A.M.R.T.M.).

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The Museum Collection Centre: Photos – Page 8

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Here are more photos I took on my first visit to the Museum Collection Centre on 17/09/22.  

An Hoover vacuum cleaner in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
Vacuum cleaners in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
Vacuum cleaners in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
Vacuum cleaners in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
Vacuum cleaners in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

A selection of early vacuum cleaners made by Cimex International, Hoover and G.E.C.

Read about the Vacuum Cleaner here.

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A cast iron bath in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A bath in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A sewing machine in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This Wheeler & Wilson Sewing machine was first patented in 1867.  It was a domestic machine and it was used in Hall Green, Birmingham. 

Read about Wheeler & Wilson here.

A terracotta relief in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A terracotta relief in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

The two reliefs above were displayed outside Dunkley’s shop in the Bull Ring, Birmingham until it was demolished in the 1950s.  Dunkley’s made prams and wheelchairs for the elderly and people with disabilities, and the Goat and Pram was its trademark.  

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A semi-diesel engine in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This Hornsby-Ackroyd oil engine built by Ruston & Hornsby in Lincoln (1893) required help from a blowlamp to start it as Compression Ignition of diesel oil was not possible for some time.

Read about the Hornsby-Ackroyd oil engine here.

Read about Ruston & Hornsby here.

A power press in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Made by Taylor and Challen, Birmingham in 1888, this press is from the factory of Gordon & Munro Limited.

Read about Taylor and Challen here.

A planing machine in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This hand-operated machine from circa 1830 was made in Manchester but it was used in the Birmingham Works of Branadauer & Co. to make the Dies needed for producing Pen Nibs.

Read about Planing Machines here.

A shaping machine in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

More versatile than a Planing Machine, Shapers were used to produce flat surfaces on shaped metal objects. Angled cuts were possible and some grooves could be cut without using a Milling M/c.

Read about Shaping Machines here.

A wheeling machine in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Machines like this were used in the early days of the Motor Trade to make curved metal shapes by distorting flat sheets. One use of this was would be to hand-produce separate Mudguards.

Read about Wheeling Machines here.

A drilling machine in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Sir Joseph Whitworth was famed for the accuracy of his machine tools in the mid-late 1800’s.  He is regarded as the founding father of Mass Production in England as interchangeability needs accuracy.

Read about Drilling Machines here.

A jeweller's draw bench in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This Draw bench is from the workshop of Joseph Fray Limited, Albion Street, Birmingham.

Read about Joseph Fray Limited here.

A draw bench in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Silver and Gold are very Ductile metals.  Smiths still use benches like this one to reduce the diameter of the wire and to produce different shapes by pulling the wire through a Draw Plate.  The Rope is not original.

Read about Draw Benches here.

A work bench in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This Bench was used in the Grand Hotel in Birmingham circa 1920 as part of the Bottling and Manufacture of bottled water. Bottling your own water is still a common practice today in Hotels.

Read about Work Benches here.

A printing press in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This Albion Press, from 1841 but built to a much earlier patent (1773), was used by Herbert and Young in their Printing Works. The strong construction methods helped put even pressure on the plate.

Read about the Albion Press here.

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Aston Hall – Official website.

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Museum Of The Jewellery Quarter – Official website.

Sarehole Mill – Official website.

Soho House – Official website. 

Weoly Castle – Official website.

Wikipedia – Official website.  This is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Grace’s Guide – Official website.  This is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain.  This web publication contains 149,969 pages of information and 235,611 images of early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them. 

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Here are more photos I took on my first visit to the Museum Collection Centre on 17/09/22. 

A railway lantern in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This gas lantern is from Bilston station.

Read about Bilston station here.

A railway lantern in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This gas lantern is from the station used by the royal family when they visited Sandringham.

A railway crest in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This cast iron plaque carries the crest of the East Lancashire Railway, which operated as an independent company in the Accrington, Blackburn and Burnley areas between 1844 – 1859.

Read about the East Lancashire Railway here. 

A small locamotive in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This is thought to be the oldest surviving 10 1/4 Garden Railway locomotive in the world.  Built in Birmingham, 1900, by Grimshaw for Captain Holder’s Pitmaston Moor Green Railway.

Read about Holder here.

Read about Pitmaston House here.

A locomotive model in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This is a model of the 0-4-0 locomotive Mary.  The original was built by W.G. Bagnall Limited, Engineers, Stafford.

Read about W.G. Bagnall here.

A train model in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
Train models in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
Bundy time clocks in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

These two clocking-in machines were made by the International Time Recording Company around 1920. They were quite laborious to operate.

Read about the International Time Recording Company here.

A gas fire in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This Flavel Windsor, Model No. 536, Gas Fire is shown here without the ceramic elements which radiated the heat out into the room. This Fire is part of the West Midlands Gas Collection.

Read about Flavel here. 

A kitchen in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Part of a designer 1950’s fitted kitchen.

A gas stove in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A gas stove in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

The two Gas Ranges above were some of the many made by Birmingham foundries about 100 years ago.  They were part of the West Midlands Gas Board (later to become British Gas) collection given to the city in 1962.

Read about the West Midlands Gas Board here.

A gas cooker in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Cannon of Bilston in the West Midlands introduced their first gas cookers in 1895 and became a leading brand in this domestic kitchen appliance. This particular gas cooker style was in popular use by the 1950’s in homes across the country.

Read about Cannon here.

Washing Dolly

This is an early attempt at trying to make washing easier at a time before washing machines.  The dolly was used to agitate laundry and placed in a tub with hot water and soap.  This one was made in Tyseley, Birmingham.

Read about the washing dolly here.

A washing dolly the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A mangle in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Before the 1950’s most houses had a mangle to domestically squeeze excess water from washed clothes.  This one was made by F.J. Cocks, 6 Worcester Street, Birmingham.

Read about the Mangle here.

This mangle was made by J. Bentley of Birmingham and dates back to around 1875 – 1925. 

Read about the Mangle here.

Mangles

A mangle in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A washing machine with mangle in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This Timesaver Washing Machine, circa 1910, comes fitted with a Wringer (also known as a mangle).  It was principally made of wood.  This machine came from the Stourbridge area.  

A washing machine with mangle in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Made by W. Summerscales & Son (later to be changed to W. Summerscales & Sons) of Coney Lane Mills, Keighley, Yorkshire in 1865 this design won awards at agricultural shows around Northern England in the 1860’s and it was exhibited at the International Exhibition in 1862.

Read about W. Summerscales & Sons here.

A washing machine with mangle in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker
A washing machine with mangle in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This machine was made in Birmingham by the General Electric Company (G.E.C.) in 1935.  It was powered by electricity.  The growing use of electricity both at home and at work ensured a great demand for G.E.C.’s products and the company expanded both at home and overseas.

Read about the General Electric Company here.

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All the above images are copyright of Frank Parker. 

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Birmingham Museums Collection – Find out more about Birmingham’s collections including art and design, human history, natural science and science and industry categories.  Each category contains sub-categories full of useful information and great photos.

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Here are more photos I took on my first visit to the Museum Collection Centre on 17/09/22.

A Rover P5B automatic in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This 3.5 Litre model was built in 1971 in Solihull and restored to concours condition by its former owner.  The mileage shown is only  45,462.  The P5B had a 3528cc V8 engine and was in production from 1967 to 1973 replacing the P5 model (2955cc from 1958 to 1967).

Read about the Rover P5 here.

A Rover 12 Sports in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Built in Coventry in 1936 the 12HP Sports Saloon was typical of later designs in that it was available with three different capacity engines (10, 12 and 14HP).

Read about the Rover 12 here.

Read about the Rover Company here.

A B.S.A. Open Tourer in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

With one of the earliest uses of steel panels in cars,  this 4-seater was built at the Sparkbrook Works of B.S.A. in  Birmingham.  It has the legendary Knight Double Sleeve Valve engine.  

Read about B.S.A. cars here.

A Bean 14HP Coupe in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This 4-cylinder 2385cc built Coupe was built in Tipton in 1927.   Bean industries stopped making cars in 1933 but supplied engine components to manufacturers including Austin Rover until the 1900’s.

Read about Bean cars here.

An Ariel Convertible car in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

The Ariel works in Selly Oak, Birmingham, built 1,000 of these cars between 1923 and 1925.  They then switched to making motorcycles as they were priced out of the market by the Austin Seven.

Read about the Ariel Motor Company here.

An Armstrong Siddeley Foursome in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

The chassis for this car was built in Coventry in 1935, but the car was finished in Birmingham for the purchaser.  It has a 6-cylinder engine developing 17HP.

Read about Armstrong Siddeley here. 

A Castle Runabout in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This car was a prototype and was made by the Castle Motor Company of Kidderminster.  They made about 350 3-wheeled Runabout light cars.  The 4-wheeled version from 1919 never reached full production.

Read about the Castle Motor Company here.

A Daimler 20 Saloon in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

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A Clement Panhard in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This light car was marketed in England as a Stirling Dog Cart.  0-65 were built in 1901 or 2 which was before Registration became compulsary.  It was first registered on January the 1st 1904. 

Read about Clement Panhard here.

A Jackson /DeDion Cylinder Wagonette in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This car was built by the Jackson Automobile Company in 1909 and was a single cylinder wagonette. 

Read about the Jackson Automobile Company here. 

A Benz Voiturette in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Built in 1900 to Karl Benz’s system, this Dogcart took part in the inagural Brighton Run, and also again in 2003 when it was defeated by the appaling weather.

Read about Karl Benz here.

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An Austin A90 Atlantic Coupe in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This 1949 Austin Achieved 63 records at the Indianpolis Production Car Endurance event in the USA that year. 

Read about the Austin A90 Atlantic Coupe here.

Read about the Austin Motor Company here.

A DV4 Electric Dust Cart (No. 184) in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This 4-ton electric dust cart was used in Birmingham between 1938 and 1971 and was developed as the result of a collaboration between the Birmingham salvage department and Electricars based on the salvage department’s experience with its previous electric vehicles.  They were replaced by diesel-powered designs.

Read about the DV4 Electric Dust Cart here.

A Tip-Cart in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

Made in 1945 by J. and A. Inston, Wheelwrights, of  Bartley Green, Birmingham, at a cost of £50.   It was one of the last carts to be made locally using traditional methods.  Its present livery dates from the early 1960’s.

A Horse-Drawn Dog Cart in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This is a horse drawn vehichle, with a compartment for carrying your dog.

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The Land Speed Record Car, the Railton Special, was built in 1937/8 had no Starter.  Instead it was Push Started by a truck linked to it by this Rod which disconnected once the engines had started.

Read about the Railton Special here.  

Read about Railton here.

A Bluebird Tyre in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This is a Dunlop tyre from Donald Campbell’s legendery vehicle Bluebird.  In July 1964 he claimed the land speed record of 403.10 mph at Lake Eyre, Australia, beating the record set by John Cobb in 1947.  In January 1967 Donald Campbell died in an accident, in his boat named Bluebird, at Lake Coniston, Cumbria. 

Read about the Bluebird here.

Read about Donald Campbell here.

Read about Dunlop here.

A generator in the Museum Collection Centre: Image © Frank Parker

This generator provided electricity for the Lizard Lighthouse.  It was made by Auguste de Meritens, Paris in 1880.  Turning at 900 rpm it produced 3KW at 32 volts AC and 120 cps. 

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Here are the photos I took on my first visit to the Museum Collection Centre on 17/09/22. 

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Doll’s House

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Doll’s Pram

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Toy Pram

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Pram 

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Victorian Pram

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Push Chair

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Rocking Horse

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Typesetting Machine

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Typographic Composing Machine

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Printing Press

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Leg Vice

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Work Bench

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Draw Benches 

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Rose Engine Lathe

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Spinning Lathe

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Planing Machine

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Wheeling Machine

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Drilling Machine

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Birmingham Museums Collection – Find out more about Birmingham’s collections including art and design, human history, natural science and science and industry categories.  Each category contains sub-categories full of useful information and great photos.

Birmingham Museums Trust’s Digital Asset Resource – Official website.  There is no registration or log-in required to use this website for out-of-copyright collection images  Download free Public Domain image files up to 3mb in size with free Creative Commons licenses.  You are entitled to unlimited downloads.  Also download free Audio Files complete with a license.  These can be downloaded for non-commercial use only and attribution is required.

BirminghamMAG – Official YouTube channel.   Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery provide world-class museums at the cultural heart of Birmingham.

Birmingham Museums – Official website.

Thinktank: Birmingham Science Museum – Official website.

Birmingham Museum And Art Gallery – Official website.

Aston Hall – Official website.

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Museum Of The Jewellery Quarter – Official website.

Sarehole Mill – Official website.

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