Liverpool tram No. 973 in colour - a photo on Flickriver

My hand *coloured (if you want to use it please credit me and link to this description) version of an old photograph of Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport (LCPT) tram No. 973, showing a 'Private' destination blind. I did not realise that I had two photos of the same tramways tour on No. 973 which I assume was being run by the **LRTL.
The other photo is at:-
flic.kr/p/2ibVtJZ

The original BnW photo is here:-
flic.kr/p/2j4gqnc

The photo reverse is stamped with the photographer (and/or negative owner) name of R. B. Parr and annotated 22 June 1952.

Liverpool 973 was built as a double deck fully enclosed streamlined tram (aka Bogie Streamliner) in Apr 1937 by LCT at its Edge Lane Works, seating 34/44 and running on EMB Hwt (heavyweight) radial bogies. Liverpool's own designation of the EMB Hwt bogie was called the EMB JB (Johannesburg). It was withdrawn Nov 1956 and stored at Kirkby Trading Estate where it was subsequently broken up and/or burned.

The parts of the Liverpool tramways system that had not already been withdrawn or transferred to bus operation closed on 14th Sep 1957.

* My coloured images are more sketch or watercolour like than colour transparency or print like. They are an impression of that subject and period, rather than an accurate representation of how the image/subject actually looked when the photo was taken.

** The LRTL were the Light Railway Transport League which was formed in 1937 and renamed the Light Rail Transit Association (LRTA) in 1979.

If there are any errors in the above description please let me know. Thanks.

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Taken in: UK / England / Kirkby (show map)

Taken on: June 22, 1952

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