Brisbane City Council pics

The advertising trams included ads for  petrol and  retail shops. The last Brisbane tram service was in 1969.

    

The 1959 Brisbane vintage car parade included a WW1 era lorry ( Napier I think )  Just ten years earlier,  some of these old cars were probably still in use on the road and looked upon as being normal transport.  

   



 

Coorparoo State School in one of the vintage car pictures from yesterday. Thought I recognised it! The building is still there.

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Jarrod.

would that be Ian Fordyce's Napier which is a veteran of WW1?

With the trams with billboards on the outside, Did people ride in them with no windows to look out of??????

mammoth wrote:

would that be Ian Fordyce's Napier which is a veteran of WW1?

I was thinking the same ... it's likely the same lorry. 

 

 

Brocky

I think they were dedicated advertising trams. They seem shorter than a normal tram. A bit of a money earner sideline income for the city.

Modern buses and trams carry signs all over the windows but they are see-through from the inside

 

would that be Ian Fordyce's Napier which is a veteran of WW1?

No bucket hat in sight.
 

The advert trams ran until 1969....

         

White goods display

   

Austerity Trailer Bus - Coronation Drive - Milton.
Author: 
Brisbane City Council
Subject: 
Milton - Brisbane - Queensland
Description: 
These susterity trailer buses were constructed by the Tramways Department for the Commonwealth Government who provided a bus service from Moorooka tram stop at Beaudesert Road along Ipswich Road to Archerfield for the conveyance of workers employed in the wartime aviation industry.
Date: 
15 May 1943