A unique piece of Manx history is to feature in a new installation to celebrate Douglas’s transport heritage.

A cable tram ’fly wheel’, part of the mechanism used for manoeuvring the tram cars around Douglas will be placed outside what was once the Peveril Hotel.

The wheel was uncovered during excavation works carried out on the area adjacent to the Bottleneck car park in 2000 for the IRIS scheme.

During the digging for the sewer system, a long-buried cable tram chamber was unearthed together with part of the original mechanism.

Now, nearly 90 years since the tramway closed, Douglas Council has decided upon a new home for the sole surviving piece of machinery.

The council’s executive committee, which proposed the location, said: ’Civil engineering works associated with the project, together with the cost of a concrete base and plinth for the wheel, would be carried out and funded by the Department of Infrastructure.’

Joining the feature on Loch promenade, will be signs at the Bottleneck car park and information about the history of the tramway from its construction in 1894 to its closure in 1929.

The upper Douglas cable tramway was built by the Isle of Man Tramways and Electric Power Company in 1894 and travelled in a ’* shape’ around Douglas.

It went up Victoria Street and Prospect Hill before heading along Buck’s Road, Woodbourne Road, York Road, Ballaquayle Road, and back down Broadway to the other terminus.

The council also agree plans for the original site of the Jubilee Clock be acknowledged with an information board detailing the clock’s history.

The clock was donated by George Dumbell to celebrate Queen Victoria’s golden jubilee in 1887.