The Liverpool Tramways Company began in 1869, operating horse drawn trams until it's take over by the Liverpool Corporation in 1898. In the company's final decade it began to look at alternatives to horse power, including considering hiring steam trams from Birmingham and also looking at compressed air and battery propulsion [1]. Eventually they settled on standard electric trams and began electric operations in 1898 just before the takeover. Thirty tram cars were bought from abroad including these single-decker trams from J.G. Brill in the USA [2].
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| Car on delivery [3] |
| Information |
| Number built: |
12 |
| Built: |
1898 |
| Builder: |
J.G. Brill |
The trams were unusual for a British system. They were forty seat trams with a central entrance and ran on a couple of Eureka Maximum Traction bogies.
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| Car interior [3] |
[1] Charles Knapper, The Golden Age of Tramways (David & CHarles, 1974) p. 87[2] A. Alastair Munro, Tramway Companies of Liverpool 1859-1897, p. 212
[3] "New cars for Liverpool, England", Street Railway Journal (Vol XIV No. 11 November 1898) p. 727
