Haha I can tell you all about this one!
It's Saturday the 4th of July 1953, the last day of tramway operation for the public in Birmingham. Miller Street depot Car 692 has done its last public duty, on route 2, City - Erdington, and has run to Witton depot for parking and eventual breaking up - the chalked notices on the dash panel tell the tale that from now on, the route will be the 64 bus. Some wag has wound "3X" on the front destination blind - a long finished route which ran to Witton Square, visible in the background.
The end of the trams was quite an event for Brummies, imagine a similar thing today if all the buses were replaced by some new fangled means of transport!
Had it not been delayed by WW2, the trams would have finished in the 1940s, replaced on some routes by trolleybuses, as Coventry Road routes were, but after the war there had been little or no maintenance on the electrical supply equipment and the most cost effective replacement was the diesel bus.