Haven't heard of the bolt before, but it would seem that it didn't always
work !

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[TDU archive images]

And it wasn't just the hilly streets, the slot and conduit collected all
manner of objects - including money and jewellery; I have read an account
of cleaning the tunnels (and what was found), probably in "Mind the Curve".

As a guide at Bylands in the 1980s, whenever a bloke who was old enough to
remember the cable trams visited, they invariably regaled a common tale:
Saturday afternoons they would attach one end of a fishing line to an old
jam tin (or 4 gallon kero tin - if they were feeling game) and the other
end to a hook (or sinkers, or anything else handy). The hook end of the
line was then dangled down the slot until it caught the cable - which then
drag the tin rattling down the street, to the casual observer apparently
under its own propulsion ! The young lads thought it hilarious, but I
wonder if the Board had to send-out a truck each Saturday to collect piles
of old tins piled-up at the first curve they encountered ?

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