‘■While in most cities in England trams are being superseded by buses, there is one city that has no intention whatever of giving up its trams, and that is Glasgow," said Mr G. H. Lightfoot, who had just returned from a lour of England and Scotland. “Any suggestion that buses' should become the form of transport meets with a violent storm of disapproval, and I have never before encountered such a unanimous and firm determination on one point.” Mr Lightfoot stated that the service was a very fine one. Fares ranged from id to 2id, the latter being charged on a route which covered seven miles.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 6
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