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Description: | At the turn of the century trams displayed their route information on long painted boards that were fixed to their sides. Trams were often also fitted with roller blinds that displayed the destination, housed in wooden boxes fixed to either end of the tram. This blind box originates from an open-top tram operated by Croydon Corporation. The destinations on the blind, including Thornton Heath, indicate that it came from a tram operating on the route to Addiscombe in Croydon.
Tramways started to run in Croydon in 1879. In 1901, Croydon Tramways Corporation was formed and was one of London's first tram systems to convert from horse to electric operation. Thornton Heath was home to one of the two Croydon Corporation Tramways tram depots. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Transport | Temporal: | 1902-14 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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