View from SSE showing trolley-bus with hotel in left background and cenotaph in right background

Description View from SSE showing trolley-bus with hotel in left background and cenotaph in right background

Date 4/3/1967

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 796282

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Trolley bus, South Frederick Street, Glasgow, from south-east This view from the south-east, taken on 4 March 1967, shows a trolley bus on service No 105, from Queen's Cross to Muirend, turning out of George Square into South Frederick Street. This was one of the four-wheeled buses which replaced the original six-wheeled ones in later conversions. The last tram service to be replaced by trolley buses was the No 12, in 1958, but the system was phased out in 1967 soon after this photograph was taken. The principal disadvantage of trolley buses was the tendency for the trolley poles to became 'dewired', with disruption of traffic. When Glasgow Corporation began to replace its tram routes, in 1949, they chose to use trolley buses, like many other municipalities, as they owned a large electric power station for the tramways. Eventually eight services were converted before more advanced motor buses made trolley buses unattractive. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT193

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