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Submitted by Klaus. View the original image on Flickr.
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Text on Flickr: These open top double deck trams were introduced in 1912. The picture here by Mee Fong Studio is from about 1920.

Source of Photograph: University of Southern California Digital Library, International Mission Photography Archive, Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America collection. Original photo here.

 

 

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Thursday, January 1, 1920
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1920s Hong Kong
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Submitted by David on Mon, 2018-01-15 20:45.

The canvas-roofed trams were in use in both decades, so they don't help with a date, unfortunately. Does anyone spot any other clues?

Submitted by Joseph on Sat, 2018-01-20 03:13.

Trams got the pictured individual adverts from 1930 onwards, and the billboard of Hatamen cigarettes adjecent to the waiting room dated c.1930, so my guess c.1930 shall be the closest date.

 

Joseph