The End of The Penny Section When Trams Ruled the Streets of New Zealand by Graham Stewart

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When Trams Ruled the Streets of New Zealand

This is the absorbing story of passenger transport in the urban streets of New Zealand. In the young colony, until waggonettes and drays uplifted people from the side of the muddy road, the only known means of locomotion within urban communities was Shanks's pony. Next came flimsy-looking horse-trams on steel rails and, later, snorting steam engines. Soon people could settle in outer suburbs that were now within range of employment, as land speculators financed and built lines to the mushrooming estate hamlets. Steep hills were tamed by magical cable cars that climbed by invisible power, and electric trams took over the major traffic routes. Until they were finally eclipsed by buses, the trams reigned supreme in our towns and cities for half a century, capturing the imagination of all urban New Zealanders...

Hardback, revised edition 1993, 260pages, very good condition