Pictured is local man, James Reynolds in his Lanarkshire Tramways Company Uniform. James was a tram driver but later became an Inspector. It is safe to say trams were well used. In the New Year holiday period in just a few days in 1903/1904, over 106,000 people used the trams, bringing in around £200. Inevitably, […]
One day at the end of February 1917, passenger got on the tram at Cambuslang and it set off heading to Blantyre. But this was to be an eventful short trip! The tram stopped and started erratically, throwing the passengers left and right, almost continuously right into Blantyre. By the West End, somebody had investigated […]
Pictured here is Tommy Brannan and possibly his sister, Mary in the late 60’s at Jackson Street, Blantyre. The Brannans were drivers for the Doonin business. Gary Doonin told me, “The 2 Brannan brothers were my dads pals ,Mick and Rab ,and drove for years with my dad as did wee Tommy Brannan (rabs son) […]
On Friday 15th August 1938, a bus veered off road at Springwells injuring four people on board. An electric standard with which it collided saved the bus from going over embankment. The vehicle was returning to a garage at Peacock Cross, Hamilton, and when negotiating a bend on the road, across from the foundry (present […]