THE TRAM CARS DOOMED?

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1947, 16 June 1913, Page 7

THE TRAM CARS DOOMED?

ERA OF THE MOTOR 'BUS. Sydney, June 7. There is a danger of electric traction, as far as tramways are coi.cerned becoming obsolescent in the not far distant future, according to Alderman R. W. Richards, ex-Town Clerk of Duuediu, and now an alderman of the Sydney Municipal Council. Alderman Richards made this statement to the Greater Sydney Commission in answer to a question by the chairman as to whether he considered the tram services should be taken o»cr by the Greater Sydney authority. He said he thought it would br as well not to touch the tram services, on the ground that for the reason lie stated, they would not be an assured asset. The trams had, he went on, already got formidable competition in London and elsewhere by motor omnibuses and other mean*, of transport, and the great r.evelopmeut that had taken plac3 tended to show that the prediction made long ago that they would some day be displaced was approaching realisation. Commencing on Alderman Richard's statement, Mr J. B. Clamp, a Sydney architect, who lias just returned from London, said he hoped motor 'buses would never be introduced into the crowded streets of Sydney. They would, he declared be perfect J nxgernauts.