An Aldridge Transport Museum walkaround, see the vintage lorries, vans & classic 1950s-1960s buses

Following collection of various old Ford car parts in the area, I called in to the nearby Aldridge Transport Museum near Walsall for a walk around. I'm glad I did, many years ago I'd been to the museum's previous location to help collect a non-functioning ex- Co-Op milk float (heavy) but this was my first visit to their Aldridge location (the Aldridge Transport Museum had previously been known as the Aston Manor Road Transport Museum).
The museum's aim is to preserve (mainly) vehicles with associations to commercial road transport in the West Midlands, including classic lorries, vans & PSVs (Public Service Vehicles - ie buses and coaches).
Commercial vehicles & PSVs were well represented. My favourites were the Austin A40 ice cream van (which I remember first seeing on our milk float collection jolly), the wonderful Fordson 7V lorry, a Daimler double-decker bus, and a fantastic late-vintage Austin Six pickup truck undergoing an engine swap.
In addition to the vehicles that are on display at Aldridge Transport Museum, there are items of memorabilia dotted around everywhere, from signs, ticket machines, posters, bus conductor uniforms, cutaway examples of engines and axles, and much much more. A solitary E-Type V12 and a handful of preserved motorcycles were also in evidence. Hopefully this video (the camera was playing up a little so the footage isn't as clear as I'd like) gives a good idea of what's there to see.
At the time of uploading this video, adult entry was just £4 and children £2, so please support the museum and pop in for a look around if you're able to.
Following feedback received from previous museum visit videos, I'd like to visit further collections and museums like this to help spread the word.
There are hundreds of videos about classic cars, vans, lorries and PSVs on the channel now, to see the full list please visit the following page:
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Thanks for watching, more videos along very soon.
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[@oldclassiccarUK]

Hi, thanks for watching, a full list of the videos on the channel is here:
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[@northstar1950]

Midland Red or if you like the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co built may of their own buses and the two you recorded here were examples. They were built at their Carlisle works Edgebaston near Birmingham to their own design. Even the engines were designed and built by the company. They were early exponents of the mid engined single decker and the use of glass fibre and integral construction.

[@alansharp1528]

Another great video. Entertaining and informative as usual so keep em coming.👍

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks, I'll try :-)

[@raypusey8037]

Lovely visit thank you 👍

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks Ray

[@itsonlyme9938]

looking at that Ripley Co Op van reminds me of the sit com Dads Army.

[@stephenricketts7764]

Having been born in West Bromwich I often used Midland Red and of course West Bromwich Corporation buses. Later when we moved South my late mother and I would journey 'up home'. First it would be Royal Blue as far as Oxford (I think) then Midland Red coaches. Those were the days, coughing on the cigarette and cigar smoke of the old gentlemen!😁👍

[@gerardlacey9384]

Beautiful video thank you!, I thought the co. Op. Van looked familiar, it was used as the delivery van in First of the summer wine!. It's on TH-cam, episode 1, Taller exercises!. Thank you again. G.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

The Co-Op still own the van if I remember correctly, great little vehicle

[@gerardlacey9384]

@@oldclassiccarUK lovely thank you.

[@aldridgetransportmuseum9171]

Thanks for posting the super video; we're glad you enjoyed your visit and hope that you'll come again soon.

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks, yes we'll be back :-)

[@craigsibley8161]

Quality 👍 especially the Loadstar bowser and the buses 👍

[@andrewsnoozy]

love your videos, especially the Commercial Vehicles, Thanks so much. And I just love the old buses, it was a Leyland I think.

[@jonathanpeden9930]

17:03 In the 80's I worked in the Technical Centre of PPG Industries in Birmingham. We worked on a pre-production mule to determine the paint system for these (2-pack acrylic) but spent most of our time filling in holes and gaps in the glassfibre body! We were assured by Metrocab that the production bodies would be much better moulded and put together.

[@Vince_uk]

And yet another one I missed

[@inaramat]

Amazing video mate im one of the volunteers who met on that day nice to meet you

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Enjoyed my visit thanks

[@darrylmcleman6456]

Great Stuff! Even more rare viewing from Canada where a lot of those vehicles were not seen in my lifetime!!! We did see many many English cars and I owned several as a youngster. Easy to repair.CHEERS

[@R08Tam]

Seeing the B82 bus brought a wave of nostalgia. As children we would catch that bus from the city centre to see my Nan in Bearwood .

[@nickraschke4737]

Look up Morris Commercial Rescue on the TH-cam. Tasmanian bloke.

[@nickraschke4737]

Ps, love your channel. It’s great mate.

[@raymondsprengelmeyer1278]

I enjoy your videos very much, I like the close and thorough look at these beautiful vehicles and your appreciation of them too! Thanks for the tour!

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@RobertGott-c3f]

A great video 😊and display well worth seeing😊😮

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Thanks! There's another museum visit video going live in the morning here

[@eliotheasman5378]

More videos please many thanks

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Doing my best! :) thanks for watching

[@xqqqme]

Really enjoying your videos, especially the show and museum visits. Since I'm a U.S. viewer, I have a question for you (and/or your UK viewers) about the shifting use of the word "lorry": I've started to notice in other TH-cam videos that folks there are starting to use "truck" and not exclusively "lorry." So, in the current British vernacular, what's the distinction between the two? When does a truck become a lorry and vice versa?

[@oldclassiccarUK]

Hi, I don't think there are any set rules on using truck or lorry. With regard to older British vehicles, in the UK I think lorry is the term to use as that's what they tended to be referred to here. Truck I always think applies to anything fairly modern, or any age commercial vehicle from the US, where truck appears to have always been the term to use. I think ... thanks for watching

[@aimeefry3708]

David Pool. Both are British terms. Truck comes from an old English word 'Trucle', meaning a pushed hand cart or barrow (still used to describe such things as 'sack truck's etc). Lorry derives from an even older, old English word 'Lurry', which means to pull, or haul.