A Fascinating History in Photos of Tram and 'Bus Transport in Cape Town since the 1800s
I was looking for the location of the old Tollgate depot in Cape Town when I came upon this really excellent Museum page on the GAB site showing a really well laid out chronological history of the various forms of tram and omnibus services over the years from the early 1800s up to around 2009.
Apart from just the vehicles, they also cover a lot around the depots, the staff, and the company itself.
I do vividly remember the City Tramways company when I used to catch the old double-deck Leyland diesel buses (the ones that chugged like the Routemaster buses), but I always thought that when they rebranded later to Golden Arrow Bus Services (GABS) that it was the usual modern naming trend. What I now see from this page was that in fact the Golden Arrow (the name) had a proud legacy itself that actually predated the City Tramways name back to 1929.
Hovering over a photo also shows a lot more context and information about it.
See
https://www.gabs.co.za/Museum.aspx
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