TRAM ROUTE INDICATOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 59, 10 March 1923, Page 19

TRAM ROUTE INDICATOR.

All we can find on the Auckland trams is "Ponsonby," "Town Hall." or some such Indication, which means almost nothing to strangers—there Isn't a word about the route or the streets or suburbs passed through between termini. In marked contrast to this Is the sort of thing the London Metropolitan Tramways management Is experimenting with at the present time on the Enston-Enfleld route. It consists of a blind or chart mounted on a roller, and containing, among other things, tue names of the various stopping places. As the car moves the blind automatically rotates on the roller. Whenever the tramway car stops tbe chart also stops, and a pointer fixed at its side indicnts to passengers exactly where the car is at the moment. The blind also tells the fares for tbe various stages, which will settle arguments between conductors and passengers who have overshot their distance. The invention, which is British, can be erected in any kind of vehicle, such as motor-coach, motor-omnibus, or taxicab.