IT was a quiet Monday, until the precise moment when staff in the City Bakeries shop on Govan Road at Linthouse were startled by a terrible noise and glanced up to see a tramcar coming towards them. The Corporation tram - a No 27, travelling citywards and bound for Springburn - left the rails and careered across the street after colliding with a car and a milk lorry. Its cabin windows shattered, its front end smashed in, it mounted the pavement and ended up just three feet from the shop door. “I thought it was going to come in through the shop window,” said one of the City Bakeries staff members, “and I shouted to the girls to get out of the way.” Two female customers ran in fear to the back of the shop and covered their heads. A third dashed out as she had left her baby in a pram outside. The tram had just missed the pram before coming to a halt. A man came into City Bakeries to ask for a glass of water for the tram conductress. No-one, fortunately, needed to be hospitalised. The tram driver had been lucky to escape injury from the shattered glass. The conductress was shaken; a woman who had been pushing a pram near the shop was treated for shock. None of the tram’s half-dozen passengers was injured. Nearly 100 gallons of milk lay pooled on the street, the result of the milk lorry shedding its load. A large crowd gathered at the scene, before a breakdown gang from the Corporation arrived and towed the tramcar onto the road.