Hartlepool History Then & Now

Tramcar No.1

What we know about this image :

This photograph, taken in Northgate, Hartlepool, on the opening day, 19 May 1896, shows electric car No. 1, one of five 44-seat four-wheelers built by Milnes of Birkenhead for the new operating company, the General Electric Tramways Co. Ltd. (GET). The livery is thought to have been green and white.

HHT&N 87

Date (of image) : 19/5/1896

Donor : John Watson

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