Accrington on Rails - The Tramways: A Complete History - Robert Kenyon

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28 up 22 down 1932 Open top from 1917 to 1928

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28 up 22 down 1932 Open top from 1917 to 1928

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28 up 22 down 1926 Open top from 1917 to 1926

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1932 Dismantled by Accrington C.T.

1932 Dismantled by Accrington C.T. The livery was bright red and cream with orange/brown roofs, the lining on the red was to be in gold whilst that on the cream was brown. The fleet numbers and lettering was in gold with blue hatching. Trucks and underframes were in maroon, whilst the fenders were black. Internally the ceilings were white and the panelling orange/brown. All the woodwork was gloss varnished and the fittings brass, the light fittings were in the then fashionable style of art deco. Car number 2 received extensive damage to its side on the 16 th of October, when a horse-drawn cart backed into it on Union Road in Oswaldtwistle, not long after entering service. The damage kept it out of service for a full week. Cars 5 & 6 were renumbered to 19 & 20 to make way for two more saloon cars purchased during 1908. During 1912 car number 12 was fitted with a flexible truck manufactured by Brush Electrical Engineering as an experiment. Cars 7 and 15 both received cab end damage in a collision between them on March 12 th , 1916. Car 15 also exchanged top decks with one of either 21 or 22 about this time. Car number 13 received severe cab end damage on December17 th , 1929. Cars 9 , 10 & 17 had their roofs removed and ran as open-top cars from 1917. Car 17 was the first to be dismantled in December, 1929. It had been out of service since 1926. Tram number 3 was festooned with various decorations for the ‘Do Your Duty’ fund raising event, which was in aid of Victoria Hospital Fete that was held on Saturday, August 14 th , 1926. Following a succession of complaints from passengers about the rough riding of the Accrington cars used on the service connecting the two towns, when compared to the bogie cars of Blackburn which were larger and more comfortable since in wet weather they also had roofs, it was decided to modify an Accrington car. As a result of this during 1924 car number 11 disappeared from service for several months, when it was completely rebuilt in the Ellison Street depot, and reputedly fitted with two BTH 40hp motors, returning to service in 1925. In this period out of service several other modifications were made, including the substitution of the 32 inch diameter wheels with ones 26 inches in diameter, new vestibule platforms fitted and six inches taken out of the lower deck. This meant the destination indicator had to be repositioned to a position underneath the roof line on the upper deck, due to it interfering with the driver’s view. By a further three inches the overall height of the top deck roof was lowered. Following

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