What's more Brum than Brew Eleven? Definately not London Pride

........The MCW Metrobus perhaps.

Not only was it built in Birmingham at Washwood Heath close to Spaghetti Junction another local landmark but the Second-City's most long lived bus reminds me a lot of the Routemaster but in real terms this Brummi survivor was built at a fraction of the cost. This Mark1 example was seen dropping people off outside Saint Chads Church next to the old open-air Bull Ring Market in West Midland's PTA days. The horrible old concrete Bull Ring has gone and been replaced but Travel West Midlands as it is now know still operates many later Mark2 Metrobuses and most are now over twenty-years-old. Of course by then an RM was just about run-in, but you have to admit most of these old production-line marvels are doing pretty well now enjoying their third decade. Now the older Olympians, the Titan and the Bristol VR have all gone we have to rely on these buses for that traditional bit of British street sound, the low pitched Gardner-engine-drone.