Rightly or wrongly I believed the vehicle shown in the pic of the school post #2 is a van (A35 or similar) but Threader AWJD quite rightly questions this on Post #96 on the
Industrial Birmingham Thread, I've looked at the pic a number of times (even projected the slide to giant size) but so far the vehicle's identity eludes me, so let's look at the facts, true it is more likely to be a car as the shot was taken June 1961 ie within term time, a tradesman was more likely to be working there out of term. I was at the school then (I started in 1960) and teachers with cars were in very short supply, Mr Jones Artmaster had a white Mini, which he parked in the rear playground near the entrance door closest to the artroom, if any of the other teachers did have cars they did not park them on the school site, the only exception to this was Mr A E Walker, Headmaster who had, during my time at the school, an Austin A55 Cambridge, and he did park it where the vehicle is in the pic - so,
mystery solved, right? Not sure, does it look like an A55 Cambridge? The time reference is about right, those cars came on sale in 1957.
School pic:
http://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=12554.msg655118#msg655118Peg.