This was needed as in horse-drawn vehicles, the steering is essentially in the middle,and behind the 'engine' (i.e. the horses), making it much harder to turn tightly as the cart has a tendancy to cut the corner after the horses have turned into it.

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A surviving metal kerb-protector on the corner of Wellington Street and St Vincent Lane in central Glasgow. This was designed to stop the kerbstones being worn away by the wheels of carts and also to help guide them into the narrow lanes between the buildings, so that they didn't damage them.

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Such tramways should not be confused with the metal tramlines on which the city's trams once ran on. However, they're both part of the same rich seam of technological developments going back as far as Ancient Greece (where they were used a paved trackway to help move boats across the Isthmus of Corinth) from which tramways, tramlines and railway lines all evolved to help make wheeled transport more efficient.

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An iron kerb protector and tramway on Waterloo Lane in central Glasgow. Designed to make it easier for horses to pull carts up hills on cobbled streets, these metal ones were an updated version for the older stone tramways, which can still be found on some Glasgow streets.

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