New Zealand - Auckland - As the lines closed, the fleet was slowly reduced in size, the old tram bodies being sold for a second life as workshops and seaside beaches. At the corner of Manukau Road and Trafalgar Street, a tram heading for the city on the Onehunga line, passes a tram body being transported to a new home by a Second World War CMG truck. #602401 Around Auckland by Tram in the 1950s - A unique photographic portfolio of Auckland as it was in the 1950s - the trams, the people, the suburbs, the streets, the shops and the advertising of the period. When the last trams were bade farewell in December 1956, suburbia was still confined mainly to the tram routes. At each terminus a cluster of small shops - a dairy, a butcher, a grocery, a hairdresser tobacconist, a chemist and a magazine shop - beyond the terminus a scattering of houses and paddocks. Author: Stewart, Graham ISBN: 1869340531 Click the link provided at the top to purchase the book through the MAD on New Zealand Shop - Supporting New Zealand Authors and Artists