Token - Belfast Corporation Transport M; Round

Features

Location United Kingdom (United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies)
Type Automatic tokens › Transit token
Composition Copper-nickel
Weight 3.6 g
Diameter 21.1 mm
Thickness 1.1 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number
N#
238699
References TC# 479676,
TokenCatalog.com (http://tokencatalog.com)
WTTP# 160-CE
Kenneth E. Smith; 1967. Catalogue of World Transportation Tokens and Passes Except North America. American Vecturist Association, Redondo Beach, California, United States.

Obverse

Legend with "M" in centre:
"BELFAST CORPORATION TRANSPORT"

Script: Latin

Lettering:
BELFAST CORPORATION TRANSPORT
M

Reverse

The Belfast City Coat of Arms.

Script: Latin

Lettering: PRO TANTO QUID RETRIBUAMUS

Translation: FOR SO MUCH WHAT SHALL WE REPAY

Edge

Plain

Comments

Belfast's first trams operated in 1872 and were horse-drawn. Initially, the system was owned and operated by the Belfast Street Tramways Company. It was purchased by the Belfast Corporation on 1 January 1905 and electrified, using overhead wires, in 1905.
Belfast Corporation converted the Falls Road tram service to trolleybuses in 1938. The Corporation regarded this as successful and a decision to eliminate the tram system was made in 1939. Trolleybuses continued to be introduced during the 1940s. The last trams ran in 1954 and, following a policy change, were replaced by diesel buses.
The trolleybuses were themselves replaced by diesel buses in 1968.[citation needed] The Belfast Corporation bus fleet was transferred to Citybus (now Metro) in 1973.
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