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Description: | This small tin plate model shows a gate end car supposedly belonging to the Central London Railway. The gate-end system allowed passengers to go in and out of the car through manually operated gates. The car is mounted on four pairs of shiny green wheels. The gates at either end are gold coloured, and the car is inscribed 'SMOKING CENTRAL LONDON SMOKING' on each side, indicating that passengers were allowed to smoke in this carriage.
The model is possibly of German manufacture and depicts an American style of car of the type introduced by American financier Charles Tyson Yerkes between 1906 and 1907. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport | Temporal: | 1910 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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