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Description: | An early Wolverhampton Corporation double-decker tram car (No. 44) at Penn Fields terminus on the junction of Stubbs Road and Penn Road. This was the first official tram to use the Lorain Surface Contact System, and the occasion was marked with a gathering of officials on the opening day of the Penn Fields service on 10 September, 1909. Third from left: Ernie Williams, Conductor; fifth from left: Alderman Frank Myatt; sixth from left: Charles Owen Silvers, General Manager of Wolverhampton Corporation Tramways. The gentleman in the top hat in the centre is Alderman Theodore Mander. The man on the left in the tram is Chief Inspector James McDonough. The driver next to him is Ernie Jeavons who later became Chief Motor Inspector, and retired in 1942. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton City Council | Subjects: | Photograph Public transport Photographs Tramways Trams | Temporal: | 1909 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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