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No Figure 100: Dandenong Road combination car blueprint. 214 Melbourne Metropolitan Tramway Heritage Study, Gary Vines There then followed further series of tramcars built by the Meadowbank Manufacturing Company, by the PMTT’s own Coldblo Road Workshops and by James Moore & Sons modified. These included innovations such as air brakes, some unusual two-bogie combination cars with the saloon at one end and crossbench seating and six bogie drop-centre tramcars fitted with equal-wheeled Brill 77E trucks, four motors and air brakes. These last were delivered after the MMTB takeover and influenced later designs forming the basis for W class. Also ordered were the L-class trams but these only entered service after MMTB takeover in 1920. They were the widest trams, and the first with four motors. They were very successful and formed a model for the design of the MMTB W class. Preserved P&MTT trams include C 26 (now Bendigo Trust No 5.), C 35 (now Ballarat Tram Museum No. 40), E 40 (now at TMSV Bylands), E 41 (now Ballarat Tram Museum No.38), E 42 (now Ballarat Tram Museum No. 39), E 44 (now Bendigo Trust 44), E45 (now Bendigo Trust no. 18), and F 46 (P&MTT 36 now at TMSV Bylands). F46 and G53 are held by the Tramway Museum of Victoria for future restoration. A summary of trams operated on the PMTT system is available on the Hawthorn Tram Museum website. 215 MMTB class 1-20 A 1910- 11 Built Car builder Description Seats Truck Control Motors Weight (tons) Duncan & Fraser 21-24 O 1912 Duncan & Fraser 25-35 C 1913 Duncan & Fraser 36 D 1914 Duncan & Fraser Single truck drop-end California combination Maximum traction bogie closed combination (sold to HTT 1916) Maximum traction bogie drop centre drop end combination. Motors upgraded in 1918-20 to 2 x 65hp (GE 201G) Maximum traction bogie drop centre drop end combination (as for 36 Brill 21E 54 Brill 22E 56 Brill 22E 56 Brill 22E 214 Stonnington Library http://stonlib.stonnington.vic.gov.au/cgibin/spydus.exe/ENQ/PIC/BIBENQ?IRN=6480955&FMT=PA 215 Russell Jones. 2008, ‘PMTT tramcar fleet’, Friends of Hawthorn Tram Depot, .http://www.hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/pmtt-01.htm WH T1F 2 x 33hp WH 205 GE B23D GE B23D GE B23D 2 x 50hp GE 202 2 x 50hp GE 202 2 x 65hp GE B I O S I S R E S E A R C H 1 3 2 Disposal 11.9 1926-31 16.3 1927 17.3 1935-55 17.3 1940
No MMTB class Melbourne Metropolitan Tramway Heritage Study, Gary Vines Built Car builder Description Seats Truck Control Motors Weight (tons) 37-45 E 1914 Duncan & Fraser 46-47 F 1912 Duncan & Fraser 48-53 G 1913 Duncan & Fraser 54-63 H 1913 Duncan & Fraser 64-83 J 1915- 16 21-24 84-85 B 1916- 17 86-91 B 1917- 18 92-100 K 1919- 20 Meadowbank Manufacturing Company PMTT Coldblo Rd Workshops PMTT Coldblo Rd Workshops James Moore & Sons 101-105 L 1921 James Moore & Sons 106 L 1921 James Moore & Sons – – 1915 PMTT Coldblo Rd Workshops Table 6: Trams of the PMTT 6.2.4 Victorian Railways Cars 37-45 but modified in 1915 for conductresses) Maximum traction bogie drop centre drop end combination. Motors upgraded in 1917-19 to 2 x 65 hp (GE 201G) Single truck straight sill semi-open cross-bench (clerestory roof) - modified to combination car with reduced seating. No 46 originally numbered 36. Single truck straight sill semi-open cross-bench (vent arch roof) - modified in 1918 to combination car with reduced seating Single truck drop-end California combination Single truck drop-end California combination Single truck drop-end California combination Single truck drop-end California combination Single truck straight sill California combination Four motor bogie drop centre combination Four motor bogie drop centre combination Works car fitted with rail cleaning and flushing equipment. Numbered 3A by MMTB (1927), then 6 (1934). 56 Brill 22E GE B23D B I O S I S R E S E A R C H 1 3 3 52/3 6 52/3 4 Brill 21E Brill 21E 36 Brill 21E 36 Brill 21E 36 Brill 21E 36 Brill 21E 36 Brill 77E 56 Brill 77E 56 Brill 77E – Brill 21E 201G 2 x 50hp GE 202 WH T1F 2 x 33hp WH 205 AEG 2 x 44hp U140 AEG 2 x 44hp U140 AEG 2 x 44hp U140 GE B23D GE B23D GE B23D 2 x 50hp GE 202 2 x 50hp GE 202 2 x 50hp GE 202 GE 4 x 40hp K35AA2 GE 247 GE PC5 4 x 40hp GE 247 WH T1F 2 x 44hp U140 Disposal 17.3 1943-51 11.3 1929 11.6 1929-32 11.9 1930-31 12.0 1928-31 12.0 1929-31 12.0 1929-31 12.9 1929-36 19.1 1981-82 19.1 1981 11.0 1948 The Victorian Railways used trams of two different gauges the railway gauge of 5 ft 3 inches and the standard gauge of 4 ft 8 ½ inches. The trams were 4 wheel bogies, but following the loss of the original fleet in the 1907 fire, 14 replacement trams made at Newport Workshops trams included 7 California combinations cars (1-7) and seven toastrack trailers (8-14). 9 extra trams (19-27) built to increase the service were based on the Sydney J class trams, a single truck closed crossbench design. Twenty air brake equipped bogie drop centre, four motor trams (28-47), the first in Melbourne, were built at Newport Workshops and put into service in 1918 until 1923. The last four trams (44-47) were never completed. Twelve of the older trams were regauged and transferred to Sandringham for the opening of the Black Rock tramway in 1919, while the result were mostly sold or scrapped. In 1942 three new cars (52-54) of double bogie luxury cars were built based on the MMTB SW6 design, using some electrical equipment from the uncompleted cars (44-47). The California cars were withdrawn with the introduction of these new cars, but did return for some peak services when required until 1956 when they were scrapped. 216 Victorian Railways trams Nos. 20, 34, 41, 48, 49, 52, 53, are preserved in various collections. 216 Victorian Railways - Electric Street Railways (VR Trams), http://www.vicsig.net/index.php?page=trams&section=vr
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