Welcome from me Michael, I'm a born and bred Brummie from Sparkhill. Live in Somerset now.
Grew up in Brum in the forties, fifties, and sixties so surrounded by industry, Austin cars, Rover cars, Girling brakes, Joseph Lucas, BSA motorcycles, James motorcycles,Ariel motorcycles, Dawes cycles, Watsonian sidecars and on and on.
Sadly all gone now of course.
Got into model engineering when I retired from a lifetime in engineering.
Good luck with your hobby, this forum has a wealth of experience from people in all disciplines so you are unlikely to have a question that won't be answered.
Bill D.