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Number built: | 2 |
Built: | 1904 |
Builder: | Milnes, Voss & Company |
Motor: | 2 Westinghouse electric motors (DC OHLE) |
Power: | 90 hp (67 kW) |
The Coal Trams could carry up to ten tons of coal [2]. They had a simple design, a standard open wagon on top of a tram truck. The low height of the coal chutes used (just over two metres above rail level) necessitated a lower body than was usual with freight trams. The coal was discharged through side doors.
The Huddersfield tram network went into decline in the 1930s and closed in 1940, the Coal Trams were scrapped along with the rest of the fleet.
Two views of Number 72 in use [2] |
The Coal Tram had a simple design |
[1] R.W. Rush, British Electric Tramcar Design 1885-1950 (Oxford Publishing, 1976) p. 121
[2] "Coal car at Huddersfield", Street Railway Journal Vol. XXIV No. 19 (Nov 1904) p. 834