> Its also very interesting to note the the previous Jones who was Lord
> Mayor in the mid-thirties, also started scrapping the trams - the only
> difference was he saw trolley buses as the way to go. He did introduce
> the BCC back into buses the first routes starting with the war.
You have a mistaken view here. The first trolleybuses were circa 1950.
There were only five lines. Gregory Tce No 23 (which indeed replaced a
very short and steep tram line); Prospect Tce - Stanley Bridge No
24 (which replaced a diesel bus service); Cavendish Road No 25 (the only
one to replace a main-line tram service) and Carina 8c and Seven Hills 8a
which replaced diesel bus services to new suburbs.
Expansion of the tramway system continued well after the introduction of
the trolleybuses, ie the Mt Gravatt extension.
Apart from the gregory tce and Cavendish Road tram lines, the first tram
routes to be axed were the four Clem Jons (curse his name) scrapped on
Christmas Eve 1963 after the very convenient arson of the Paddington tram
depot.
David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand