Four street cars built by Glasgow Corp Transport Department described; car no 1001 has reconditioned truck of Maley and Taunton type; no 1002 and 1004 are completely new vehicles; n 1003 is reconditioned truck of EMB type; object of building cars was to discover capital cost, weight and current consumption of new car as compared with Coronation type, which were of truck construction. (see also Transport World v 87 n 2779 Feb 8 1940 p 47-9)


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    Title :

    Experimental four-wheel tramcars for Glasgow


    Additional title:

    Passenger Transport J


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1940


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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