 This had developed into a through service running from Lochee to Monifieth in 1922, but in 1931 the Corporation had bought that entire system, and closed it all on the same day as they closed their link to it.Despite such closures, the official policy as stated by Robert Taylor, the General Manager, was that trams wouild remain a major component of transport in Dundee, and this continued to be the position until the early 1950s.Taylor reduced the fleet from 99 to 60 trams, but he implemented a major rebuilding programme for those that were left.