Monday, November 8, 2010

three Wellington Big Red trolleys


Today's historic picture shows 3 trolley buses at the bus depot at the intersection of Featherston Street and Lambton Quay in 1978, with the Railway Station in the background. All are British United Traction chassis - Number 22 on the left is from the early 1950s, Number 57 is from the late 1950s/1960, and Number 113 is from 1964. The latter had a body built by New Zealand Motor Bodies. The first had a Metropolitan Vickers 78 kW motor and the other two had 75 kW English Electric motors.

For more details and pictures of historic Wellington buses, as well as trams and trains, see our book Wellington Transport Memories.

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