Newspaper, The Argus, "Six Trams Damaged with Road Metal", 15/03/1937 12:00:00 AM

Physical description

Newspaper Clipping - from The Argus Monday 15/3/1937, titled "Six Trams Damaged with Road Metal", about the damage caused at the time of the closure of the South Melbourne and Port Melbourne cable tram services - by souvenir hunters and people at the Port Melbourne depot who through road metal (stones) at the trams as they came into the depot.



The timeline gives the date of closure as Saturday 13/3/1937.



Notes one of the Gripmen was a Mr. J. Armstrong.



A comparison with the cutting as collected and the reproduction in The Argus on Trove, while the same photographs has a different text layout and text, possibly indicating two different editions of the paper.

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