TAKAPUNA TRAMS
SALE OF CARRIAGES WANGANUI AND DUNEDIN PURCHASES (Special “Chronicle” Service.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 20. After lying idle for the last 19 months, six of the carriages of the old Takapuna Tramways and Ferry Company, which was wound up in April, 1927, will go back to work. The liquidator of the company announces that the Dunedin Tramway Board has bought four of them for the electric tramway system in Dunedin, and the authorities in Wanganui have purchased the other two. The new owners intend to take off the bodies and build new ones on to the old chassis, and it is understood that very little alteration will be necessary to make up-to-date electric trams. The old vehicles will be shipped to Dunedin during the week, .mu to Wanganui some time next week. It is not known what price has been paid for the trams, but it will be remembered that some time ago the locomotives of the company were sold for scrap iron.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 276, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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163TAKAPUNA TRAMS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 276, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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