Can anyone tell me when the last illuminated tram ran, I saw one after WW2, too young to know what the occasion was, others say they were stopped during the WW2 and were never run again.
Pete.
The last illuminated tram ran in May 1945. Car #341 was moved from Coventry Road Depot to Kyotts Lake Road Works and then dressed up in lights to produce the 'Victory Tram'. Mr. Lawson, the Kyotts Lake head honch, later tried to interest the Company in a 'Coronation Tram' in 1953, but they weren't interested (presumably because it was too close to the final closure of everything 'tram' in the City, and they just wanted it all gone).
A few years ago, we had someone else on the Forum who reckoned he'd seen an illuminated tram in the years after the war, so it's possible that an illuminated BUS was produced, but I can't find any mention of it in the literature.