Cable Car (纜車)

Cable Car came to Hong Kong because of the British people. In the past, the British people lived high up the Pacific Mountain. Whenever they need to go to downtown, they need to get down the hill by going through winding routes. This caused a great inconvenience to them. Hence, they created cable car in 1888. At first, it is moved by steam and had only 30 seats. Only until 1926, electricity replaced steam as its source of power and had about 50 seats. In 1948, the whole cabin was made out of metal, and in 1959 onwards, 72 seats are available and the whole cable car cabin was made out of aluminum.

Reference: LeePoSin Former Land Public Transport of Hong Kong.ppt.