Restored vehicles take pride of place

Restored historic vehicles from across the Black Country are on display at a Midland museum.

Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Trust, based at The Transport Museum in Wythall, has carried out painstaking restoration of vehicles including a 1949 Wolverhampton trolley bus and a West Bromwich Corporation Bus, used on routes through the Black Country in the last century.

The trust has been running since the 1970s, restoring and preserving around 100 classic buses, coaches, milk floats and bread vans.

Wolverhampton discontinued its trolley buses in the early 1960s, after which the 1949 bus was taken on by another preservation society, before being passed onto the Birmingham group in the 1970s.

It was displayed in the north west until recently, when it was returned to the Midlands.

For details visit www.wythall.org.uk