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PRESERVATION
The other "Baby Grand", car 245 which was preserved by Liverpool Corporation Transport also now needs work and may become a future project for the MTPS. © All photos are copyright of Ronald P Smith. Appeal For Information: Where you in Liverpool anytime upto September 1957? Do you have photos, negatives, slides or any other information on the tram system of Liverpool City Transport? If so, you may have a valuable record of the system. The Online Transport Archive is a registered charity dedicated to providing long term security for transport collections. If you have anything you would like to offer please send me a message EMAIL or visit the Online Transport Archive web site (see the Links & References page). | |
In March 1960 a tour of the Glasgow tram system was organized by the Liverpool University Public Transport Society. The tour used ex Liverpool car 869 (re-numbered car 1055 in Glasgow) which was one of a number of "green goddesses" that had been sold to Glasgow during the run down of the Liverpool system. During that tour the idea of preserving car 869 came about.
After many years at Leeds and Crich, 869 was eventually returned to Liverpool in 1967 were space was made available for it in Green Lane Depot. After 12 years of fund raising and hard work by the Merseyside Tramway Preservation Society (MTPS), 869 was finally restored and in 1979 was returned to Crich Museum where it operates today. The society has since been very active in restoring other trams including Liverpool "English Electric" car 762 which can now been seen operating at Birkenhead, Merseyside.