Saturday 29 December 2012

You can wait half an hour for a tram and then dozens turn up, Oxford Street in 1938



You can wait half an hour for a tram and then dozens turn up.

It is an amazing picture and not one that my friend Alan can help me with.

Had there been a traffic jam, or was this just one of those regular things which Manchester commuters put up with as commuters do?

I bet there will be someone who knows, but failing that perhaps it's time to trawl the newspaper cuttings looking for stories of traffic jams in 1938.

There is just a hint from the expressions of the conductor and driver that something is not quite right.


Picture; from the collection of Alan Brown

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