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Adelaide electric trams 1909 @SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+163…

@SLSA View from above of King William Street in Adelaide. A long line of electric trams and crowds of people are in the street, and the front tram is decorated as part of an event to celebrate the first trams in Adelaide. 1909
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+731…

@SLSA Horse trams, King William Street, Adelaide, ca. 1890
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141671…

@SLSA Two trams, crossing in North Terrace. One is drawn by two horses, the other is a new Type B "toastrack" electric tram no. 32
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+4364
c. 1909

@SLSA Victoria Square, Adelaide - a great resource in the @SLSA collections
This view of Victoria Square shows the recently commissioned electric trams, some horse traffic and a motor car (bottom right). c. 1910
collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+4346

@SLSA 'King William Street / looking south from North Terrace / 1923 / Near side of Commercial Bank (on the right) is 54 yards north of Hindley St.'
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+3534

@SLSA King William Street, Adelaide -
'Reproduced in the 'Observer', Feb.19, 1927 / Acres 140, 71 / King William Street, looking south from Grenfell Street. / Feb. 1927'
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+3980

@SLSA King William Street, Adelaide
In the foreground is the Number 29 Adelaide-Glenelg Railways Bus, a double decker with an open top, its passengers enjoying the sunshine. 1927
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+3978

@SLSA Postcard in remembrance of the Adelaide Horse Cars
@SLSA collections collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+726…
"In affectionate remembrance of the Adelaide Horse cars which sucumbed to an electric shock. During December 1908. After thirty years faithful service. Gone, but not forgotten."

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