Subject: Upper Douglas Cable Tramway 69
Maker: United Electric Car Company, Preston
Location: Preston, Albert Edward Dock
Date: c.1907

69 has completed loading onto the SS Thursby, along with some horse trams for Douglas visible at the stern.

SS Thursby was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast in 1876 and was powered by a two-cylinder compound steam engine built by J. Rowan, also of Belfast. She foundered on August 23rd 1923 whilst carrying a load of scrap from Portsmouth to Barrow.

Photograph from the GEC archive