The simple answer is 172 as that one was bedecked in lights and ran a ghost service (with no passengers) during the final week in November 1956, and it lead the final procession of 88 and 217 which carried only special ticketholders, but as 217 was the final tram into the garage it could be said to be the last tram.
217 was sent to be scrapped the following day (followed by the rest of the fleet) but 35 was selected for 'preservation' (I don't know whether it still survives) instead of 225.
Information gleaned from:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eALRxMGYOq4
Edited to add:-
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No. 35, built in 1948 was put on display in a small museum at the Shrubhill Depot for a few years.
It then operated briefly at the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988 and then on the Blackpool tramway, before going into retirement at the National Tramway Museum at Crick in Derbyshire where it remains on display today.
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