The horse-drawn bus was the first form of public transport in New Zealand. In this 1904 photograph of Wellington’s Cambridge Terrace, passengers have just transferred from the horse-drawn trams in the background to the horse-drawn buses in the foreground. The trams ran in the inner-city area while the buses would take passengers on to outlying suburban areas.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Tramway Workers Union Collection
Reference:
PAColl-D-0925-3
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