Robert's occupation

[clarksparks]

Any ideas please to read the occupation of my great grandfather Robert Taylor in 1901 in Southampton? He was previously a tram car driver in Bristol and later a tram car driver in Southampton. The word 'Tram' has been added across all 3 entries.

[Treetotal]

That's tricky...best guess, Mining Coal...Collier? The second word could be collector?
Carol

[Crumblie]

The top one is electric motor man which is another name for a tram driver, perhaps the second one is conductor.

[JenB]

Looking at the full page I don’t think the occupational annotation ‘tram’ has been added to all three.
The third one (coachman) has been annotated as ‘groom’ and I think the letters CC have but added to the one in question.

Looking at the handwriting elsewhere on the page I think the last letter of the word is ‘k’

The reference is RG13/1072/105/17

[GR2]

FindMyPast has it transcribed as Comcl Clerk = commercial clerk. An entry for someone else further down the page says "Tramway Conductor" written in full.

The line begins with an oblique stroke, as do all the lines in the column on the page, then a word which seems to be scored through. It seems to end in -ing.

[JenB]

I was thinking that the second word might be clerk.

[GR2]

The Hampshire Advertiser of 24-11-1900 reports on a court case where Robert Taylor "who was driving the tram car referred to" was a witness to a collision between two other vehicles.

[Karen McDonald]

I can't decipher the word that has been crossed through (strangely, it does not look like a capital letter at the beginning), but to me the other 2 bits look like Con^d and a badly written abbreviation of electric.

Would conductor electric make sense, seeing as other chappies around him were on the trams?

[clarksparks]

Thanks everyone for trying. I guess we'll never know exactly what it says. Robert went on to work as a tram car driver in Southampton for many years, having been an 'ostler' in Devon when he was much younger. Unfortunately employee records for Southampton Tram Co. were destroyed in the blitz.
Thank you, Jeff.