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Source Collection
Commercial Appeal newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0452.01.055_000.001
Description
W.A. Simmons, a Memphis, Tennessee, trolleybus driver waves at the electric bus that was to replace his trolleybus, March 1947. The Memphis Railway Company had operated trolleybuses for 40 years in the city but phased them out following World War II.
Date Created
2021
Date
1947 March
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Recommended Citation
"Trolleybus makes way for electric bus, Memphis, 1947" (2021). Memphis. 301.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-commercialappeal4/301
Keywords
Buses--Tennessee--Memphis.
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