Trolleybus makes way for electric bus, Memphis, 1947

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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

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Recommended Citation

"Trolleybus makes way for electric bus, Memphis, 1947" (2021). Memphis. 301.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-commercialappeal4/301