Cadbury's used to do (pre-booked) factory tours back then, and at least into the early 60s. These were true factory visits, not the theme version 'Cadbury World'. The usual format was that the coaches would drop off their passengers at the factory - the coach would then be despatched to park up in a coach park by the playing fields further up Bourneville Lane beyond Linden Road. During the course of their tour they were given a tour of Bourneville Village in coaches of Kendricks, Dudley (these were on layover from works services to Cadburys) The visiting coaches would then return en masse to the Bourneville Lane frontage of the factory to collect their chocolate laden passengers towards the end of the afternoon. It was always worth getting on your bike during school holidays, or it was just possible to get there in time after school by jumping on the no 11, to see what was on offer as coaches came from all over for the visits - including vechicles that might not be expected in those pre-motorway days such as Hanson of Huddersfield Regal/Roe DP rebuilds, Booth & Fisher Reliance DPs, amongst the more likely coaches. Perhaps one of the most over ambitous ones was a Commer Avenger I from the Keswick area which arrived as the others were about to depart home - nevertheless the passengers were taken over to the factory for a tour. Apologies for the late reply - I have been on holiday. As always - thanks for sharing your photographs Peter. Kind regards - Les Ronan
On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 00:55:06 UTC+1, Peter Relf wrote: > > *Thomas Bros, Port Talbot (CW): PTX 203.* > AEC Reliance with Burlingham Seagull C41C body, new in 1955. > > Bourneville, Birmingham. June 1958. > > © Peter Relf. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
