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JOJ 255 is a Leyland PS2/1 single deck bus, chassis no. 495585, body no. M4634, ex-Birmingham Corporation Transport no 2255. Birmingham City Transport bought 30 Leyland PS2/1 Tiger single deckers in 1950 with 'O.600' 9.8 litre engine and synchromesh gearbox. They were fitted with Weymann 34-seat front-entrance bus bodies and several distinctive features, including a route number indicator box half-way down the nearside roof. It was allocated when new to Selly Oak garage as no. 2255, and withdrawn from there in May 1969, yet transferred to West Midlands PTE when it absorbed Birmingham City Transport on 1 October 1969.<ref>[https://www.classicbuses.co.uk/bham.html Classic Buses website] (Retrieved 19 July 2020)</ref><ref name=PS>Information provided by Peter Share</ref>
It arrived on the SVR in 1971 in good working order having been acquired for preservation by SVR member John Berry.<ref name=SVR23>SVR News 23, p. 36.</ref> It is now at the Transport Museum, Wythallprivately owned elsewhere<ref name=PS/>.
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===Daimler JOJ 707===
[[File:Ruston Hornsby 402812 Yellow Peril.jpg|thumb|300px|right|2707 is seen in the background of this 1975 photograph]]
JOJ 707 is a Metro-Cammell bodied double decker, with Daimler engine, built at Elmdon in 1952 and ex-Birmingham Corporation Transport no 2707. The 56-seat vehicle spent most of its life at Liverpool Street garage. It arrived on the SVR in 1971 under the custodianship of the late Maurice Newman.<ref name=SVR23/> It is now at the Transport Museum, Wythall<ref>[http://www.wythall.org.uk/wm.asp. Wythall Transport Museum 'The West Midland Collection]</ref>.
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