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Stations, Junctions, etc
Engine Sheds
Other
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Miscellaneous
Birmingham Small Arms (BSA) and Singer Motors:
misc_bsa&singer340
This German Luftwaffe map is dated October 1940 and
specifically identifies the Singer Motorcar Works as a potential target for
bombing. Also on the map can be seen; the BSA Small Heath works, the Great
Western Main Line, Tyseley Locomotive Depot and Carriage Shed, part of
Bordesley Goods Yard and the private railway line serving the Singer Motors
Works. All these locations were repeatedly bombed during the Second World
War.
After the German air-force carried out a major air-raid on
Birmingham during the night of Wednesday 20th November 1940, they took high
level aerial photographs to assess the bomb damage caused to the site. This
photograph has been annotated with numbers identifying where damage had
occurred and appears to show that the most significant damage affected the BSA
Waverley Road Works (numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4) and that the Singer Motors Works at
the top of the photograph was relatively unscathed.
Robert Ferris
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