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Transport History
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Birmingham's history as a transport manufacturer is extensive, with
firms like BSA, Norton, Ariel, and Velocette motorbikes, LDV vans,
Wolseley police cars, Morris, the Mini, Austin, MG Rover Group, Lucas
Aerospace, Tyseley Locomotive Works, The Dunlop Tyre Company, the
Midland Red Bus Company and a UK branch of Alstom trains, formerly the
Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, National Express coach
services also are based in Birmingham.]
Jaguar
also has a production plant at Castle Bromwich.
The Motor
Show is the largest motor show in Britain, and used to
be hosted at the NEC every other year.
In the
First and Second World Wars, the Longbridge car plant built everything
imaginable from ammunition to tank suspensions, steel helmets,
Jerricans, Hawker Hurricanes, Fairey Battle fighters, Horsa Gliders,
mines and depth charges, with the mammoth Avro Lancaster bomber coming
into production towards the end of WWII.
The
Spitfire fighter aircraft was mass produced for the Royal Air Force
during the Battle of Britain, at Castle Bromwich. It has been argued by
some that Britain may have lost the second world war had it not been
for Birmingham's massive industrial might.
Longbridge has played a
vital role in Birmingham and the wider conurbation's employment since
the invention of the aeroplane.
Transport-history
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Amazing Austin Aeroplanes
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Construction of the Avro Lancaster bomber in
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Surviving
Birmingham made Avro Lancasters
Austin
MG-Rover
The Wolseley
Castle Bromwich Airfield
The Spitfire
Midland Red
Garner Tractors
Singer
Cars
The Mini
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