MELBOURNE’S CABLE TRAMS.
MELBOURNE, Nov. 19.—Casual visitors to .Melbourne, who have been accustomed to the even pace'and the jingling bells of tbe cable trams, will soon find that those locomotive attributes of til a city have disappeared entirely. Workmen, some in three shifts, so as not to loso a 'moment of time, have been working on St. Hilda road, preparing for tlie new electric traction. It has always appeared strange to those who are unacquainted with the governing conditions, that whiles the access to leading suburbs from tbe city lias been by the crowded cable Iranis the outlying suburbs have been supplied with a. modern-equipped electrie service. Jhe conversion all over the. metropolitan area would have been completed long ago, if it had not bean for the wav.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16895, 27 November 1925, Page 11
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128MELBOURNE’S CABLE TRAMS. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16895, 27 November 1925, Page 11
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