BUSES REPLACING TRAMS
1 CHANGE EFFECTED IN WEST LONDON USIUTISH OFFICIAL WIUELESS.) RUGBY, September 11. In the early hours of to-morrow morning the last tramcar .will leave the streets of West London, and enter its depot at Hammersmith. Only two hours later the first trolley-bus, 100 of which are replacing the trams in this section, will be on the streets. This is the biggest stage in the conversion of tramcar routes to trolley-bus yet undertaken by the London Passenger Transport Board. It will bring the total of new road vehicles placed on the roads since the board was formed in 1933, to 2630.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22197, 14 September 1937, Page 9
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