Birmingham City Transport was a municipal organisation that operated the passenger transport network in Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

 between 1937 and 1969.

History

Birmingham City Transport was created out of Birmingham Corporation Tramways

Birmingham Corporation Tramways

Birmingham Corporation Tramways operated a network of tramways in Birmingham from 1904 until 1953. It was the largest narrow-gauge tramway network in the UK, built to a gauge of 3 ft 6 inches...

. The name reflected the fact that there were now a mixture of trams, trolleybuses and motor buses operated in Birmingham.

Between 1947 and 1954, Birmingham City Transport purchased 1,748 new buses to replace its entire fleet of trams and trolleybuses, along with utility buses (built to inferior standards during the Second World War), and all except 40 or so of its pre-War fleet. Birmingham City Transport placed a turban ban on all employees in 1960, which led to Sikhs

Sikhism

Sikhism is a monotheistic religion founded during the 15th century in the Punjab region, by Guru Nanak Dev and continued to progress with ten successive Sikh Gurus . It is the fifth-largest organized religion in the world and one of the fastest-growing...

 going on strike. The ban was lifted in 1962.

Birmingham City Transport survived until 1969 when it became incorporated in the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive

West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive

The West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive , sometimes known as Centro, is a local government organisation responsible for certain transport services in the West Midlands county in England....

.

See also

• List of bus operators of the United Kingdom
• The Transport Museum, Wythall
• Trolleybuses in Birmingham
  Trolleybuses in Birmingham
  The Birmingham trolleybus system once served the city of Birmingham, in the West Midlands region of England. Opened on , it supplemented Birmingham's original tramway network....