 The name reflected the fact that there was now a mixture of trams, trolleybuses and motorbuses operated in Birmingham.In 1945, to celebrate VE Day, an illuminated tram ran in the city.Between 1947 and 1954, Birmingham City Transport purchased 1,748 new buses to replace its entire fleet of trams and trolleybuses, along with utility buses (built to inferior standards during the Second World War), and all except 40 or so of its pre-War fleet.