Tramcar no.672
Tram car, 1900 LT.1958.43.b
“[Single-decker trams] did not appeal to Glasgow people, accustomed to double-decker omnibuses and horse trams.”
Charles Oakley in "The Last Tram"
Comment by Morag Turnbull
We have single-decker trams in Sheffield. No one ever uses them. They're always empty - what a waste of money!
From: Morag Turnbull
Comment by "The Last Tram" by CA Oakley
...a pace can be attained which the horse tram could never attempt and the excellence of the brakes makes this pace less and less a source of danger.
From: "The Last Tram" by CA Oakley
Comment by "The Last Tram" by CA Oakley
When the first electric tramcars ran from Mitchell Street to Springburn crowds assembled and gazed with open mouth in amazement and admiration at the swift moving vehicles gliding along under the command of some strange unforeseen force
From: "The Last Tram" by CA Oakley
Question by Alistair Kyle
Still smoke??? Any time I'm upstairs on a bus there's plenty doing it.
From: Alistair Kyle
Question by Glasgow Museums
One of the sections in this tram was for smokers - do you wish you could still smoke on public transport vehicles?
Eyewitness by Letter to Glasgow Herald Oct. 1898
Sir – I observe…On Monday night a telephone wire broke and fell over on the trolley wire of the Springburn route. Fortunately it did not fall on any passengers otherwise a serious mishap might have occurred.
From: Letter to the Glasgow Herald, October 1898
Eyewitness Lord Provost of Glasgow, October 1898
We are met today to inaugurate a new system of tramway traction in the city of Glasgow. … We are very hopeful that it will be a great success and indeed the experience of the last few days or rather, nights, has proved I think to our general manager that it will be as successful as he always predicted it would be.
From: Lord Provost of Glasgow October 1898
