Standard Combination tram No 1, South Brisbane, 1897

Queensland State Archives posted a photo:

Standard Combination Car No. 1 was built in 1897, the prototype electric tram using the body of an earlier horse tram. They were popularly known as “matchboxes”. 63 were built between 1879 and 1904, the last being retired in 1952.

Queensland State Archives Item ID436313, Photographic material

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