Pollokshaws Road at Bengal Street c1955. The registration number on the small commercial vehicle, MGG 867, seen disappearing
behind the leading tram, was issued in 1954. The tramcar, a Corporation Transport Department mk.II Coronation ‘Cunarder’, fleet
number 1335, first used in 1950 and withdrawn in 1961, is on the 25 service bound for Carnwadric. Behind is one of the earlier main
production batch (number not legible) on the 14 service bound for Arden. One hundred-and-fifty of the latter were put into service
between the end of 1937, in time for the Empire Exhibition in 1938, and 1941. Prominently seen is the rope looping down from the
roof at the forward ends of the ‘cars, used by the conductor to pull over the current collector at the terminus. Note the two adverts
for cigarettes on the left, with between them the railway signal bracket carrying the main line and slow line up starter signals at the
outlet from Pollokshaws goods yard. Farther on are beer and Usher’s Export ale adverts. On the right is the burgh hall boundary wall
with entrance and exit gates, the pillars of which were surmounted by ornate iron brackets, which carried the decorative lights seen
in the next photograph. The main-road section of this wall and the war memorial (with three hundred names inscribed on it) were
moved back subsequently on two occasions for road widening schemes. Behind the Christian Street name plate is the house seen in
the previous photo.