Book, Melbourne University Press, Mind the curve! : a history of the cable trams, 1970

Physical description

Index, bib, ill, maps, p.155.

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

The colourful cable tram, 'gliding along with its swan-like motion', remains the nostalgic memory for Australians that the hansom cab is for the Londoner. Yet it was the major street transport over two generations for Melbourne, San Fransico, Chicago and other brash and self-confidently expanding great cities of the late nineteenth century.

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