NZ: Two New Plymouth pictures, one of them mine - 1

AH&AW Reed's pictorial book "Seeing New Zealand" went through several
revisions. Seeing this picture as a youth in the 1950s convinced me that any
country with trolleybuses in a small (ca 30,000 at the time) provincial city
was no ordinary country.

New Plymouth's single trolley line was converted from a tramway in 1947 and
extended more than a kilometre. Diesel buses replaced trams on the more heavily-
used "main line" in 1954, and this one survived alone untl 1967. Four Crossley
TSD42s maintained the service; the city got a bargain by piggybacking on a
larger order by Wellington.

This view, I believe, looks east along Devon Street from the corner of Robe
Street with the trolley heading outbound towards Westown. At the bottom we can
see the inbound wire turning south one block, whence it will head east along
Powderham and Courtenay Streets to the city terminus at Liardet Street.

Don Galt
Seattle


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