Kaikorai and the early years - Cable cars new cable arrives in March 1907.

Kaikorai Cable Cars - New cable arrives in March 1907

Above: The 25-horse team pulling the 12.5 ton cable for the Kaikorai and Dunedin Tram Company halts after climbing Rattray Street.
Information from NZ National Library and Papers Past - Otago Witness 27th March 1907.

Also republished in the Otago Daily Times of 27-3-2007 as '100 years ago-from our archives'.

Left: Cable weighing 12½ tons suspended by the pulley outside the sheds in 1907.
Photograph (K253).