Tramcar, 1952 T.1972.33
Courtesy of Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums)"The most comfortable vehicles of public transport ever made for the city – warm in winter, ventilated in summer, spacious, comfortable, smooth, safe, cheap.”
Donald Saunders in "The Glasgow Diary"
The trams ran later than the buses. The first time I did night service, a drunk came on and I’ll never forget it. I was really truly terrified. The driver was laughing at me. I had to ask 2 other men to help lift him off at George Square. I didn’t get his fare, I was too terrified. I decided I was not doing night-service again.
From as early as I can remember I loved ‘going for a hurl on the tram’… Yet I don’t ever remember pestering Ma to take me on a bus.
At the junction of London Road and Moir Street on the eastern corner was a glass company, it was quite common for Bridgeton bound trams to 'jump' the points and career into the glasiers
I wonder if the new Tramcars will have Wi-Fi ? this will look rather strange a P.C. being used on a moving Tram
My mother and I travelled on trams, going into Glasgow to shop. We stayed in Uddingston and would travel in. I really loved travelling on trams; they were so graceful, gliding along the road. As a boy I thought they ran by magic.
Were the Cunarder trams really the most comfortable vehicle ever made for the city? Did you use them to go to work, or out to the dance halls?
I travelled on the Cunarder quite a bit in my teens. The Cunarders were a completely different ride to the Coronation which was heavy but smooth. The Cunarder felt lighter - it lived up to its name in that it could start to roll when it picked up speed, literally swaying from side to side like a ship.
On the Cunarder the driver had an inside mirror, so anytime somebody moved, it caught the driver’s eye and he knew something was going on!
I remember the Cunarder from the 1988 Garden Festival. It was a smooth runner.It reminded me of the old Subway, as the electrical switches were the same so it made the same clicking and hissing noises from the cabinet.
