Other former industry included railway rolling stock manufacture, at the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company factory ; screws and other fastenings from Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds ( GKN ), engines from Tangye, tubing from Evered's, steel pen nibs from British Pens and various products from Chance Brothers ' glassworks, including lighthouse lenses and the glazing for the Crystal Palace ( the London works, in North Smethwick, manufactured its metalwork ).

At CIÉ, he led the first major dieselisation programme, which involved the procurement of a fleet of diesel multiple units from AEC of Southall, 94 diesel locomotives ( 60 CIE 001 Class and 34 CIE 201 Class ) from Metropolitan-Vickers and 12 Sulzer-engined diesel locomotives ( CIE 101 Class ) from the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.

The Valentine remained in production until April 1944, becoming Britain's most-produced tank during the war, with 6, 855 units manufactured in the UK by Vickers, Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon and Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon.

A 1914 seven-compartment side-corridor third built by Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon for the Glasgow and South Western Railway is preserved by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society at Falkirk.

Total production was 175 vehicles including the 30 CS versions ( see below ), 45 were built by Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, 45 by Metropolitan-Cammell, 10 by Vickers.

In late 1939 another order was placed with Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, this time it was a larger order of 75 vehicles.

The Midland Railway Carriage and Wagon Company was a Birmingham, England, based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons.

The Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company ( MCCW ) was a Birmingham, England based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons, based in Saltley and subsequently Washwood Heath.

The Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company ( BRC & W ) was a railway locomotive and carriage builder, founded in Birmingham, England and, for most of its existence, located at nearby Smethwick, with the factory divided by the boundary between the two places.

While all the other carriages for these units were built by the SR at its Eastleigh Works, the Trailer First carriages ( which were laid out as dining cars ) were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company ( BRCW ) and the Trailer Restaurant Kitchen Third carriages by Metropolitan Cammell.

The British Rail Class 26 diesel locomotives, also known as the BRCW Type 2, were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company ( BRCW ) at Smethwick in 1958-59.

The Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company was a rolling stock manufacturer, although they were building diesel multiple units for BR.

The British Rail Class 104 diesel multiple units were built by Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company from 1957 to 1959.

The first was built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company ( BRCW ) and the second by Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company.

They were built by the Metropolitan Amalgamated Carriage & Wagon Company at Birmingham and each motor coach had four Winter Eichberg motors.

The stock, built by the Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company at Birmingham, was as follows:

The Córas Iompair Éireann 101 Class locomotives, numbered B101-B112, were built in 1956 by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company.

D0260, named Lion, was a prototype Type 4 mainline diesel locomotive built in 1962 by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, in association with Sulzer and Associated Electrical Industries, at their Smethwick works in Birmingham to demonstrate their wares to British Railways.

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In May 1917, control of the holding company was obtained jointly by the Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon and Finance Company, of Birmingham, chaired by Frank Dudley Docker, and Vickers Limited, of Barrow-in-Furness.

She was later a partner in the Washington, D. C. office of the Birmingham, Alabama law firm Balch & Bingham.

In popular music, London-based artists such as Audio Bullys and Chas & Dave ( and others from elsewhere in the UK, such as The Streets, who are from Birmingham ) frequently use rhyming slang in their songs.

* Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery's Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource includes almost two hundred paintings on canvas and works on paper by Ford Madox Brown

File: William Holman Hunt-The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple. jpg | William Holman Hunt, The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple, 1854-1860, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham

William SmallThe nature of the group was to change significantly with the move to Birmingham in 1765 of the Scottish physician William Small, who had been Professor of Natural Philosophy at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Land Rovers were manufactured primarily at the Solihull plant, near Birmingham, but production of the Freelander was moved to the Halewood Body & Assembly plant near Liverpool, a former Ford car plant.

In the English-speaking Caribbean, Robert Mole & Sons of Birmingham, England, was long considered the manufacturer of agricultural cutlasses of the best quality.

The club joined the Birmingham & District Football Association in 1881 and became eligible for their first competition, the Birmingham Cup.

* Arlington Antebellum Home & Gardens in Birmingham, Alabama

* Midland Red, the fleet and trading name used by the Birmingham & Midland Motor Omnibus Company ( BMMO )

The club dropped into the Birmingham & District League, and in 1909 also became members of the Southern League.

However, at the end of the 1909 – 10 season, the club had finished bottom of the Birmingham & District League, and second bottom of their Southern League division, and subsequently folded.

In 1921 they joined the Birmingham & District League and three years later the club became known as Burton Town and were league champions in 1928.

After some good league and FA Cup campaigns the club joined the Midland League in 1935 for four seasons before returning to the Birmingham & District League in 1939.

A major exhibition, " Turner's Britain ", with material ( including The Fighting Temeraire ) on loan from around the globe, was held at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery from 7 November 2003 to 8 February 2004.

Freight service is provided by BNSF Railway, CSX Transportation, Norfolk Southern Railway, Alabama & Tennessee River Railway, and Birmingham Southern Railroad.

* 1953 – Birmingham Army Hospital becomes Birmingham Jr. & Sr. High School, the third Jr. & Sr. High School in Van Nuys.

The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery was enlarged and a number of new parks were opened.

Local publications include The North Jefferson News ( weekly ) & The Birmingham News ( daily ).

* The Blind Girl: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

In 1942, an order for a 17 pounder gun armed tank was placed with Birmingham Carriage expecting it to be based on the A27M components.

Birmingham Carriage had to modify the Cromwell hull to take a bigger turret.

The Anglo-French was an English automobile manufactured by Leon l ' Hollier's Anglo-French Motor Carriage Company of Birmingham from 1896 to 1897 ; the cars were basically Roger-Benz vehicles modified for the British market.