TAKAPUNA TRAMS TO BE USED AGAIN
WILL RUN IN DUNEDIN After lyino idle for the last 19 months, six of the carriages of the .Id Takapuna Tramways and c-rry Company, which was wound up in April, 1927, will go back to work. The liquidator of the company announces that the Dunedin Tramway Hoard has bought four of them for the electric tramway system in Dunedin, ,nd that the authorities in Wanganui have purchased the other two. The new owners intend to take off •he 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 bo shipped to Dunedin during the week and to Wanganui some time next week. It is not known what price has been paid (or 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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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 516, 20 November 1928, Page 13
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159TAKAPUNA TRAMS TO BE USED AGAIN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 516, 20 November 1928, Page 13
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