Trams
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of seven tramcars, together with 200 engineering drawings and 500 photographs. The collection is made up of Glasgow Corporation tram cars and associated operation material like uniforms, badges, maps and some records. The collection covers the dates of 1872 to 1962. This collection spans the operational life of Glasgow’s trams. It includes tramcars that date back to the beginning of the Glasgow Corporation Transportation Department. The earliest tram is the horse-drawn car from 1898, and the latest is the ‘Cunarder’, dating from 1952. The 1088 Standard Car is representative of the largest fleet of Glasgow trams. The ‘Coronation’ Car of 1937 and the ‘Baillie Burt’ represent technological advances. The collection also contains a significant number of street furnishings, such as fare zone and tram stops, ticket machines, several items of uniforms and badges and medals. It also has destination screens dating from the 1950s and 1960s, and paper items comprising numerous tickets, maps, guides, timetables and personal items.
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