page_title: Trolleybuses in Wellington
section_title: First era
hierarchical_section_title: Trolleybuses in Wellington / History / First era
caption_attribution_description: English: Wellington's first Trackless Tram (an AEC 602 trolleybus) outside Inglis Bros. It had a locally built body on an AEC 602 chassis.
context_page_description: Trolleybuses in Wellington were part of the Wellington public transport system from 1924 until 1932 and again from 1949 until 2017. It was the last trolleybus system operating commercially in Oceania and the last major system operating in a country where driving is on the left side of the road.
context_section_description: On 29 September 1924 the first trolleybus route was inaugurated with a single AEC 602 trolleybus running from Thorndon along Hutt Road to Kaiwharawhara (then known as Kaiwarra).
  A trolleybus was chosen over an extension to the Wellington tramway system because a large water main on the route precluded tram track construction. Patronage was not very high, and as bus services in the area were introduced and expanded in the years following, patronage declined further and the service was withdrawn on 30 May 1932.
caption: Wellington's first trolleybus, an AEC 602 in November 1924
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