Transportation in Edinburgh

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Mr. Fox: When you were a boy what was the transportation like in Edinburgh?

Papa: Transportation, I remember, the cable car. And I say it’s a hilly city. And the cable car round until after WWI and then they changed over to all electric and between then and now of course the street car rails have been lifted or covered over and buses have taken their place. These are all the city buses and are all double-decker.

Mr. Fox: When you were a boy were there a lot of automobiles or not too many?

Papa: Well, they were just coming in. When I was a boy, horse drawn wagons were the “in” thing. Automobiles were for, well, the better-off people who could afford them and I didn’t see really many automobiles until I came to this country, and it was quite a strange sight to see so many automobiles. In fact, not only was it strange, but the first place I worked had to do with automobiles to a great extent. Dodge, the old Dodge Studebaker and the old Model T Ford, these were made by E. G. Budd, that is, the bodies, and having as part of my earlier apprenticeship as a, with an electrical engineering firm, I had some part of my time spent in tinsmithing. So then the first job I got here was straightening automobile bodies, new, that came off the presses and had been damaged.