Intensive Driving Courses in Smethwick

There are many many intensive driving schools out there which offers crash courses but with no pre-arranged test at the end. DTC is different. We will book you a driving test in the Smethwick area before we even consider starting you last minute intensive driving course. 

Last Minute Intensive Driving Courses Smethwick

Our intensive driving courses in Smethwick been designed to help learners pass the first time. DTC has an average pass rate of 82% in or around the Smethwick area compared to the national average of just 44%. Our driving instructors are highly qualified experts in the field of intensive training. The instructors recognize learning to drive can be stressful, so are patient and understanding. You will be taught, not only to drive but also learn the driving test routes used by the examiners at Smethwick.

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Although we can not no guarantee that you will pass the first time, we aim to teach you to the highest standard. Get your driving fast-tracked by calling DTC-UK now.

Intensive Driving Courses Smethwick

If you live in Smethwick, your driving test would normally be booked in or around the Smethwick area. Your last minute intensive driving course would also be conducted in the Smethwick area.

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However, please note that driving examiners may take you to the surrounding towns and villages.

The first choice for your last minute intensive driving course would be Smethwick.  However, there are other practical test centers in the area with may be used.

Below are the addresses of the local test centers –

Wednesbury Practical Driving Test Center

Knowles Street,
Wednesbury,
WS10 9HN

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This test center provides these types of tests: car, ADI part 3.

You can access this test center if you use a wheelchair.

Birmingham Practical Driving Test Center (Kings Heath)

955 Alcester Road South,
Birmingham,
B14 5JA

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This test center provides these types of tests: car, ADI part 3.

DVSA will make arrangements for you at this test center if you have a disability.

Birmingham Practical Driving Test Center (Sutton Coldfield)

110 – 116 Boldmere Road,
Sutton Coldfield,
B73 5UB

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This test center provides these types of tests: car.

DVSA will make arrangements for you at this test center if you have a disability.

Birmingham Practical Driving Test Center (South Yardley)

Clay Lane,
South Yardley,

B26 1EA

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This test center provides these types of tests: car, ADI part 2, ADI part 3.

You can access this test center if you use a wheelchair.

Smethwick is an industrial city in Sandwell, West Midlands, England, historically located within Staffordshire. It is located four miles (6 km) west of the centre of Birmingham. In 2019, Smethwick Ward had an estimated population of 15,246 people, and a larger sub-district, Built-up Area, had 53,653.

The name Smethwick has been suggested to mean “Smiths Place of Work”, but more recent interpretations suggest that the name means “settlement in smooth ground”. Smethwick is recorded in Domesday Book as Smedeuuich, a D in that spelling being an Anglo-Saxon eth.

Until the late 18th century, it was a remote hamlet in south Staffordshire, adjacent to Harborne village. Harborne became part of the Birmingham county Borough, then transferred from Staffordshire to Warwickshire in 1891, leaving Smethwick within Staffordshire. The oldest operational motor engine in the world, the Smethwick engine, built by Boulton & Watt, was first located off Bridge Street, Smethwick.

It is now in the Thinktank, the new Birmingham Science Museum.

One company that stands out is the London Works, a production facility of Fox Henderson, which made the steel frame of Crystal Palace. It was founded by Charles Fox, whose inventions included the first patent railroad spike. Among his famous employees was William Siemens, the famous mechanical and electrical engineer.

The firm was bankrupted in 1855 due to an inability by the Overseas Railway to pay for work done. The site was subsequently used by GKN Company. In 2015, the site was cleared for a new Midlands Metropolitan University hospital, intended to merge Sandwell General Hospital, West Bromwich, and the city hospital, Dudley Road. Work on the site subsequently came to a halt due to a slump in the building trade.

A 1906 Willss cigarettes advert showing “Smethwick boroughs use of sigils instead of arms”. The seal bears the Latin motto, Orbis Terrarum Officina (“Workshop of the World”), and shows James Watts Engine, the Lighthouse (representing the glassworks of Chance Brothers), the Gasometer, and the Blacksmith working on his anvil.