Thursday, August 5 – 1897
The Liverpool Corporation, having municipalised the tramways of that city, to take effect on September 1, on Monday resolved to equip a line of tramway as an experiment to be worked by the trolley or overhead system of electric propulsion, at a cost not exceeding £50,000.
The new line will start from the centre of the city and run south, being about four miles long. The cars will closely resemble the American cars, all one floor, and a portion open at one end for smokers and outside passengers. The iron columns to carry the electric current will be utilised for illuminating the streets by electricity.
(Gloucestershire Echo, 05-08-1897)
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