Perth
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Perth and District Tramways bought out the Scone and Perth Omnibus Company and built a line on the route, from Perth to Scone. The tram services began on 17 September 1895. Perth Corporation took over the horse trams of the Perth and District Tramways in 1903. The Corporation trialled a petrol tram unsuccessfully and began electric service in October 1905. The main route was from Scone to Cherrybank with branches to Craigie and Dunkeld Road. The Corporation began running buses in 1911.
After World War I, the tramway was in poor condition. Based on a report issued in 1927 favouring adandoning the trams, the Corporation aquired the buses of the Perth General Omnibus Company, which was running in competition with the trams. The Corporation was constrained by 1908 legislation governing their bus service, limitting bus services to 3 miles from a tram route. So they continued to run the trams until the legislation was changed, running buses on the same routes as the trams, with the trams running infrequently and often rempty. The final tramcar ran on the 19th January 1929. A few days letter the Tramways committee decided that the department would be known as the Perth Corporation Transport Department[1].
Having not succeded in putting the bus operations on a sound financial footing, the Corporation approached W Alexander & Sons, who agreed to run the municpal bus servcies. Alexander took over on the 5th May 1934 and initially used the name Perth City Transport, but this was dropped by 1945.
| Perth Corporation Transport Department 1929 - 1934 | ||
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| Source | (Breingan) | |
| Filename | PCD.0005 | |
| Value | ½d | |
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| Size (mm) | 22 | |
| Manufacture | Green Celluloid | |
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- ↑ Dundee Evening Telegraph, 22 Jan 1929, page 3