Tram back on rails
I This 70-year-old tram restored I by 3000 hours of work by members of the Tramway Historical Society came off its rails as it ; was trundled out for its official inauguration at Ferrymead. The t”am was jacked-up and , steered back on to the track, however, in time to be given its first official drive by the Mayor of Dunedin (Mr ! J. G? Barnes), who is
shown at the controls. The old vehicle, electrically driven, used to run in Dunedin. It was acquired by the tramway society in 1970 from a farm near Dunedin where it had been left to rot. It has been rebuilt and set going again to form part of the tramway society’s museum of transport at Ferrymead which will be housed in a 15.000 square foot building (yet to be erected) financed partly
by a $25,000 grant the Government made last year. At the inauguration were the Minister of Railways (Mr McGuigan), the Minister of Police (Mr Connelly), a former Mayor of Christchurch (Sir Robert Macfarlane), and the member of Parliament for St Albans (Mr H. J. Walker).
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33442, 25 January 1974, Page 28
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