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Apart from numerous postcards depicting the trams, in the collection of the Museum of Cieszyn Silesia in Cieszyn there is also a series of photos from the first period of the tramline and later periods. Click on the photo to enlarge it.

Decorated tramcar leaving the depot (12 February 1911)

Cieszyn tram fleet and its crew in front of the depot (1911)

Tramcar on its way to the depot (ul.Dojazdowa)

Tramcar no. 2 approaching (railway line on the left)

The interior of the depot

Tramcar no. 2 in front of the depot (on the left equipment for repairing the traction)

Tramcar no. 4 at the end of the route - under construction (today Český Těšín, the Railway Station on the left)

Construction of the passing loop in the Market Square (1910)

Tramcar no. 2 in ul. Głęboka

Tramcar no. 4 in ul. Głęboka

Tramcar in ul. Głęboka

Opening ceremony of the tramline - the Market Square (12 February 1911)

4 following photos supplied by Tadeusz Kopoczek (with our thanks)

The terminal stop opposite the Pod Słońcem restaurant - ul. Wyższa Brama (c. 1914)

Tramcar no. 1 in Górny Rynek (c. 1914)

Trams in the Market Square (c. 1916)

The Market Square and the Pod Brunatnym Jeleniem Hotel c. 1918

Tramcar in ul. Głęboka in winter

Tramcar driven by Józef Kohut on the border crossing bridge (after 1920)
Photographs thanks to Bronisław Kohut

Cieszyn trams in Łódź

Photos from the collection of MPK Museum, Łódź, with thanks to Wojciech Źródlak

Group of Łódź tram drivers on strike by the Cieszyn tramcar in the ŁWEKD Chocianowice depot
The strike broke out on 8 July 1936 (and ended the next day)

Fragment of the electric tramcar no. 42
Photo dating from 1941 in the ŁWEKD Chocianowice depot (then LEZ, short for Litzmannstädter Elektrische Zufuhrbahnen)
Group of depot staff by the tramcar no. 39
in the Chocianowice depot (LEZ) in 1943
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