FOR SALE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26782, 27 May 1948, Page 4

FOR SALE

OLD CABLE CARS TO BE OFFERED AT AUCTION Six cable cars whose usefulness ended last year, when the Stuart streetKaikorai service was replaced by buses, are among surplus plant, machinery and tools to be sold by auction for the Corporation Transport Department next week. One of the, smaller type of city trams, No. 14, is also to be offered for sale. Having carried in 50 years millions of passengers and earned many thousands of pounds, the cable cars will probably be relegated to less lucrative tasks when they arc converted into cribs and home workshops. What the ultimate bids for the offerings will be is difficult to predict, since it is seldom that these vehicles come under the auctioneers’ hammer. Some sentimental citizens may feel inclined to give a cable car a home, purely from past associations. The trarh body will attract a different customer, for unless demolished it is not a thing ea’sily put in the back garden. After the corporation dispensed with the hill tram services some years ago seven tram bodies were disposed of. They were not sought by city buyers, and all of them went to country districts to serve as huts and week-end dwelling houses.