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

this rebuilding the car proved to be more successful in service although still did not match the eight wheeled Blackburn cars. Similar modifications were made to car number 24 during 1926. Car number 10 received a roof during 1929, by which time car number 9 was only available as a standby. It has been recorded that cars number 6 and 14 were due to be repainted towards the end of tramway operations, but with the impending closure it was decided not to go ahead with this, so they were the only cars ever to be described as in poor external condition, whereas the remainder of the operational fleet were always spick and span.

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CHAPTER 6

ELECTRIC TRAMWAYS 1908 – 1911 (The devil was now in the detail as the Council began to discover how to operate an electric tramway, as well as inheriting the depot as vacated by the Steam Tramway Company. However there was no turning back and it was a case of learning as they went along, one lesson being that the new form of traction proved almost too popular. The Board of Trade then issued a set of rules and regulations which supplemented those of the Manager.) During the course of the operation of electric trams Accrington Corporation Tramways found it necessary to obtain more cars all of which were built by Brush in Loughborough, ( details of which are as follows in the period under review in each chapter .) No . Type Seats In Out Disposal 5 Saloon 32 190 193 Dismantled by

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