Birmingham Museums Collection Open Day

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Thanks to sparkright's tip off I went to Birmingham this morning to look around the giant Museums Collection building in the city and see the two engines stored there, Aveling & Porter 2992 and Burrell Tractor 4084 "Busy Bee".

I can remember Busy Bee in steam at the old Newhall Street rallies and I was told the Aveling used to go to events under it's own steam in years gone by. Some of the museum staff told me that budgets have been slashed within the City Council and they don't have funds to even advertise the open day events externally anymore so the likelihood of the engines being brought back to a steam again seems remote at best. Maybe one day, they are both notable engines for their own reasons.

Completely impossible to get good photographs of them so surrounded by other items. I had to go beyond the yellow line painted on the floor to get the photographs that I did, which got me a telling off by the hi-vis jacketed museum employee.