Re: The end is nigh in 1955
  Mal Rowe

On 27/03/2024 15:36, Mal Rowe wrote:
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> By 1955 the Bourke St Melbourne buses were nearly done for.

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A few weeks later and the trams are back to Bourke St.

Australian General Electric have upgraded their advertsising to promote Osram lamps.


No 1000 still runs 69 years later as a City Circle car.

The point of this series of MMTB official photos was appalling traffic conditions inccluding rampant double parking (as shown in this pic)

The white mark on the Bourke St roadway just over Elizabeth St is water from a City Council street washing tanker.

Mal Rowe in a city that has moved the cars off the tram tracks.

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