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Welcome to
WHEELS / MIDLAND RED COACHES!
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To see our range of
Midland Red buses and coaches... go straight to the
Our Vehicles page.
or go straight to the COACH HIRE pages.
For all your Charabanc,
Bus and Coach Hire Enquiries
email us anytime: buses@wheels.co.uk
or call us (see above for times) on 024 76
633624
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THE BIGGEST
RANGE of
Vehicles - For Hire
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WHEELS
Museum of Transport Heritage project operates the classic
buses and coaches which represents Midland
Red.
We bring you the biggest range of vehicles for just
about any special occasion. Anything from our most popular bus
the unique vintage
Charabanc, and our very smart Midland Red D9 red
double decker, to our "Wheels Pioneer" single
decker coach which is in the Red and Black traditional Midland
Red coach livery too. We also have examples of traditional
Leyland Leopard coaches - both with different examples of
bodywork (one with Wheelchair Lift, and one the Prototype
Crusader coach), which you will often see
operating our Heritage Day Trip programme and Private Hire
duties.
All available for Hire with
experienced, professional and uniformed Drivers.
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| Vintage
Buses & Coaches for Hire ! |
 WHEELS
/ Midland Red Coaches and have a number of unique buses
and coaches available for Hire for Special Occasions.
A Big Red Double
Decker
FOR HIRE in the Midlands !
See the COACH HIRE
pages for full details of this and other vehicles Wheelchair Accessible coaches and our unique
vintage Midland Red Charabanc
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| More about
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| Wheels is an unusual
combination of a transport themed specialist bus & coach company
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For information on
our vintage and specialist BUSES & COACHES click on the
hyperlink above or click on the COACH HIRE button at the top
of the page. When you are in the Coach Hire section -
don't forget to see "Our Vehicles"
to view our fleet of unique and unusual vehicles.
We are expert in our
field of bus and coach operation and have many years
experience in the people moving business.
Our business is
inextricably linked with transport nostalgia and our Wheels
Museum of Transport looks after the vintage fleet and
has a large collection of transport memorabilia which has been
collected over many years and strongly reflects the history of
Midland Red. We have also just secured TWO brand new
1940 Midland Red uniforms and we now have a Mannequin model
dressed as a 1940's Conductress too!
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The Midland Red
Concert Orchestra
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| We are urgently looking for any information on The Midland Red Concert
Orchestra. This part of the Midland Red history is not
well documented, and whilst our colleague David Grayburn Hale
of DAVIDEO has some clips of film, we are anxious to have
details of the Orchestra make-up, and any photographs or
memories that anyone may have.
The orchestra
performed in places like various Town Halls, especially around
the time of the Midland Red Tour Brochure launches,. The
Company would visit towns and Cities in the area, have a film
show of the latest tours, and the Midland Red Concert
Orchestra would provide the musical entertainment.
We would like to
recreate The Midland Red Concert Orchestra - any help or ideas
would be welcomed.
Please contact us by
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| Midland Red
Centenary Print |
 WHEELS
/ Midland Red Coaches have produced a special run of
just 500
Limited Edition Centenary Prints. These
special large A2 sized canvas laid 170gsm paper prints show ten
famous Midland Red buses and the men who made them. The print
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provided in a strong card postal tube - either collect from
our shop or by post. £24.99
See our shop page for further details
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Check Out these Latest Updates!
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Recent updates of
this web site:
updated: February 2009
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- Welcome to 2009!
- what we have been doing
over the winter season.
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Midland Red Travel Club - it's
growing, don't miss out !
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It's Go, Go, Go - news of our latest coach
refurbishment.
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| BUSES FOR
PLEASURE pages: |
- Seasonal Stately Home Visits
- trips to
Thoresby and Shugborough
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| LATEST NEWS
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Midland Red Day Trips - now from Tamworth too!
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WEDDING
TRANSPORT - Our speciality
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Days
to Remember.
Of course we
operate a wide and diverse range of bus and coach hire
work, especially Heritage and Nostalgia based, but
our Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays are often taken up
operating meticulously planned and timed transport for
Weddings
Fridays and Sundays are now seen as alternative days for
Celebrations, sometimes more convenient, but often
because its a lower cost alternative - yet still
enjoying the same facilities and services as more
traditional Saturday Celebrations.
See our Buses for Pleasure
page for more pictures of our Wedding and Civil Partnership
ceremonies.
Email your Wedding and Civil Partnership transport
enquiries together with any ideas you have which you
would like to include on your special day
buses@wheels.co.uk
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More HERITAGE DAY TRIPS!
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 We are planning a new selection of destinations for our next DAY TRIP
leaflet which is due out mid October.
Our current season of Tours runs up to December, and the new leaflet will list exciting new trips (plus some of the old favourites too) and will cover the period from January to June 2009
Midland Red Day Trips are friendly days out by Heritage Bus or Coach, and as we have done for many a year, the Driver takes the Sweets around for each passenger on each departure.
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Britain in
Bloom - The City of Birmingham!
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| Midland Red is a
name very close to the hearts of many people in and
around Birmingham - after all, Midland Red's 'proper'
name was The Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus
Company.
We are proud to
be involved with the Second City in the tours we
operate in Birmingham, but especially at Britain in
Bloom time, when our unique Charabanc is used to
transport the Judges around the floral sites of this
great City.
It is wonderful
to see so many admirers when we bring our classic
vehicles to Birmingham, and especially enjoyable
to talk to the many ex-Midland Red employees who so
often come to tell us a story from "the good old
days"
Pic 1: The Chara dressed perfectly for such an occasion!
Pic 2: Birmingham's ambassadors check everything is
ready.
Pic 3: Two of the Judges pose by the Chara - during a
break from judging.
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Bye-Bye Digbeth
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 Saturday
17th November 2007 was a sad day for all Midland Red
enthusiasts as yet another ex Midland Red depot
disappears. Digbeth Coach Station closure was a media event
with live music, speeches and fireworks, and a display of
classic buses and coaches.
See our photo
slideshow of this special event, and a fuller story on our
Latest
News page.
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Phone and Messageline
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TO BOOK Coach
and Bus Hire - call us on 02476 633624, (1030-1430hrs
Monday to Saturday) 07966 237888 normal office
hours, or
our message-line 0845 021 4711 and leave your name, address and
telephone number
See our COACH HIRE pages for additional details
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| SPECIALIST VEHICLES for
SPECIAL OCCASIONS
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 Antique Telephones
A
range of unusual and collectable telephones -some
original railway items! |
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COACH HIRE AND ADVICE
Our exciting and
unique vintage and specialist fleet of buses and coaches cover
the Midlands and are available for selected Private Hire
duties.
If you have a special occasion - a Wedding, Civil Partnership,
a special
Birthday, Anniversary, or want to organise a special day out
or a Mystery Tour - email us.
We can help with planning itineraries, all styles of Wedding
and Funeral Transport too.
Just email us at buses@wheels.co.uk
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