The 75th anniversary of the Blackpool Tramway back in 1960 was marked by the restoration of four cars. Three of these were extracted from long term storage. Dreadnought 59 was the first officially preserved car when it was set aside in 1935; Conduit car 4 (restored as car 1) had been in store since been declared redundant as a works car in 1934. Fleetwood Rack 2 had been stored since the mid 1950s when its duties as a snow plough car had become redundant and the final car- Fleetwood Box 40 was still in use as an Engineering car in 1959. All four saw varying degrees of restoration undertaken in the Corporation workshops.
The celebrations took place on Thursday 29 April and involved two processions from Pleasure Beach to Little Bispham and back to Talbot Square featuring:
