In this edition of Picture in Time we are back in Blackpool as we take a look at an all over advert from the 1980s as carried on Balloon Car 707.
Today Balloon 707 is one of the four of the class to have been rebuilt with flat ends around the turn of the century – also fitted with widened centre entrances – but is currently stored at Rigby Road Depot out of service. Going back over 30 years and 707 was just another member of the popular Balloon Cars which were used on the tramway albeit carrying an all over advert for Blackpool Tower. Featuring pastel colours of blue and yellow as the base this advert was carried for three years in the mid-1980s and was actually the fifth advert this particular tram had carried.
In this view we see 707 heading for Pleasure Beach as it approaches Foxhall Square showing off its advert livery.
Photograph by Peter Gough