{"id":12685,"date":"2015-09-29T18:58:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=12685"},"modified":"2015-09-29T18:58:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:58:30","slug":"picture-in-time-glasgow-1158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=12685","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Glasgow 1158"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are heading back into the black and white era for today\u2019s Picture in Time image as our time machine lands in Glasgow during 1961 at a time when the extensive Glasgow Corporation Tramways was on the final straight of operation. The tram that got in the way of our photographers camera was Coronation <strong>1158<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>1158<\/strong> was one of 150 Coronation Cars built in Glasgow Corporation\u2019s famous Coplawill workshops between 1937 and 1941 at a time when they were both trying to update the fleet of trams (these trams offered a significant improvement in comfort) and increase capacity with the impending Empire Exhibition expected to see a large influx of visitors to the city. <strong>1158<\/strong> was the 16th of the class to be completed and would have entered service in 1937\/8. Exact details of when it entered service and how long it remained as part of the operating fleet have not been able to be located (although I am sure if someone out there knows they will be happy to let us know in the comments section below).<\/p>\n<p>We find <strong>1158<\/strong> on Argyle Street on 13th September 1961 apparently working on route 5.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12686\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=12686\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12686\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12686\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12686\" title=\"1158\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1158-550x364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1158-550x364.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1158-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1158.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are heading back into the black and white era for today\u2019s Picture in Time image as our time machine lands in Glasgow during 1961 at a time when the extensive Glasgow Corporation Tramways was on the final straight of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=12685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12688,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12685\/revisions\/12688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}